Woman's Home Journal

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Title: Woman's Home Journal
Description: Official Publication of the National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines
Issue Date: Volume XII (Issue No. 7) November 1937
Publisher: National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines
Language: English
Subject: Women's periodicals.
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Place of publication: Manila
extracted text: Growing IT’S SMART TO BE HEALTHY JF you have the prob lem of feeding a family cf growing children you know how important vegetables are to their !ict and health. Campbell’s Vegetable ■ oup gives them the val. hfu.1, energy-producng properties hey need and satisfice their appe tites. For this vegetable soup is made with a savory, double-rich beef "lroth and 25different kinds >] garden vegetables. It is, n fact, so rich in vegetables that it is almost a meal in it self. Why not serve this wholesome food to your family, often.' Try a tin today Ready to serve in a few minutes. (See directions.) TWICE AS RICH AS HOME-MADE "Head 'Directions Campbell’s Soup is made twice as rich as you would make soup at home. It is necessary, therefore, to add an equal amount of water before serving. Thus each tin of C a m p be 1 l’s c~ your shelf means double the quantity of soup your table. Vegetable Soup WORLD’S LARGEST SELLING SOUPS • 21 KINDS: ASPARAGUS • BEAN • beef • BOUILLON • CELERY • CHICKEN WITH RICE <» CLAM CHOWDER • CONSOMME • SCOTCH BROTH • MOCK TURTLE • MULLIGATAWNY • MUTTON • NOODLE WITH CHICKEN » OXTAIL • PEA PEPPER POT o PRINTANIER • TOMATO • VEGETABI : • VEGETABLE-BEEF • CREAM OF MUSHROOM Buy a Supply of Campbell’s Soups from Your Dealer Also Campbell’s Pork and Beans— A mo it unusual food value Men and women of the world know it is smart to be in good physical condition. Good look! and a fine poise go with good health. Look at a gathering of the social elite -that gaiety, ele gance, assurance, rests on HEALTH. The suc cessful man or woman is healthy. Without good health Bothing that’s worthwhile can bo done. Vitality, strength and atamina can be youra by adding BOIE’S EMULSION to your diet. Ita rich content of the life-giving Vitamins A and D is double that of any other Emulsion. To the ambitious young maa BOIE’S EMULSION la a necessity, Be on a par with the smart world. Keep your body healthy and your mind bright. Start taking BOIE’S EMULSION. Start immed iately. Good for both growing children and adults. A bottle costs but a peso and lasts two weeks. THE 50% PURE COD LIVER OIL Hypophoa 10 Gm. Pot. A Sod. Hypophoa dd. 5 Gm. CM Liver Oil 500 ce. Cal. H Spn* A Flavoring a.«. 1 Lit. TESORO JEREZ-QU1NA LEG1TIM0 Stop worrying... This health restoring tonic is indispensable for nursing mothers. It is highly re commended to im prove the nervous system, and is an excellent prepara tion for general debility, especially for convalescents. GD Nothing like it for restor ing vitality JEREZ-flUDU ▼tSOACjll, Insist on this bottle For loss of appetite, TESORO JEREZQUIN A answers the need. It sti mulates and aids digestion. TESO RO JEREZQUINA is a nextract from the .juice of selected grapes and qui nine. It stands out because it is the best. Try it today! GD Most in de mand through the year round REFUSE ALL SUBSTITUTES! I IVaawru’s Home Journal—Norember. 1H.17 I KQME JOURNAL / J * Vol. XII, No. 7 MINERVA P. GUYSAYKO (Editor) SOLEDAD HOJILLA (Associate Editor) MRS. GERONIMA T. PECSON Herminia Ancheta, author of our local short story. (Advt. & Business Manager) LORENZO T. ADARNA FROM COVER TO COVER (Assist. Advt. Manager) OUR cover this month shows a pic ture of two children specially posed for Thanksgiving. The girl is Citang Balmori Villegas and the boy is Marito Balmori Moreno', they are cousins. Our original plan was to have two children, a boy and a girl, of Concepcion Balmori Ville gas (a daughter of Joaquin Bal mori), pose for the picture but the boy, his mother told us, gets fright ened by the flashlight, so a cousin of his, Marito (son of another Bal mori daughter), was pressed into service. The two children were not difficult to photograph, for they were rather quiet and easily fell into the suggested pose. Some people may disagree with Acting Director Rodriguez of the National Library on his choice of the five greatest Filipino women during the Spanish regime of our history, but until they come out with their own choices, we are con tent with Mr. Rodriguez’s selection. However, we are sure that nobody will disagree even with us when we say that in our opinion Dona Teodora Alonso de Rizal is the greatest of all, not only because she was the mother of the greatest Fili pino but because she possessed all the virtues that made her an ideal mother. The picture of Dona Teodora which appeal’s with the article is a reproduction of the only postalsized photograph of hers in the pos session of one of her living daugh ters, D'ona Narcisa Rizal. We went to see Dona Narcisa about a pic ture of her mother and wc plan ned to stay just as long as good taste permitted but instead we spent considerable time with her. Dona Narcisa recently celebrated her 85th birthday but unlike many people of her age, she is still quite strong and can remember with accuracy many things about her family and of the troublous time of the revolution. For instance, she remembered that her mother was born this month, giving the day (the 9lh) and the year (1828) and that she died in August, 1911, at the age of 83. The fact that Dona Teodora was born on this month makes our article on (Continued on page 48) TABLE of CONTENTS News, Views and Reviews Third National Girls’ Week Program ................................................. 2 Monthly Briefs ................................................................................ 5 &6 Message from Mrs. Concepcion Felix Rodriguez ............................... 7 Among Ourselves ................................................................................... 8 Women Abroad by Pia Mancia ..................................... 19 Books and Authors ................................................................................ 20 Movie Section ......................................................................................... 21 Club News ................................................................................... 22 & 23 Girls’ Week Message from Mrs. Esperanza L. Osmena ................... 41 Women Help In Boy Scouts Fund Campaign .................................. 48 Special Articles The Five Greatest Filipino Women by Eulogio B. Rodriguez........... 9 Women At The Crucible by Francisco R. Fernando........................... 12 Father Meets Son by J. P. McEvoy ..................................................... 14 China’s “Women of the Hour” ............................................................. 10 War and Peace by Pura Santillan Castrence...................................... 16 Fiction and Poems Our Lives (Local Short Story) by Herminia Ancheta....................... 13 About Women (Poem) by Anita Laurie Cushing ............................ 16 Princess Pauper (Serial, Part I) by Stephen Vincent Benet............. 17 Haven (Poem) by Manuel E. Buenafe .............................................. 39 Gratitude (Poem) by Elizabeth Crisholm .......................................... 46 Fashion Fashion Flashes ............................................................................ 24 & 25 Home Institute t Let’s Have Just Soup ...............................................’........................... 26 Christmas Is Only A Month Away ..................................................... 30 There’s Always Something To Be Thankful For .............................. 28 Shopping Guide ..................................................................................... 32 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL is published monthly by the Woman’s Home Journal, Inc., with editorial and business offices at 1132 California, Manila. Entered as second class matter at the Manila Post Office. The subscription rates are: P2.00 for 1 year, Pl.10 for 6 months, in the Philippines; $1.50 for one year, $.80 for 6 months, in the United States; $2.00 for 1 year, $1.10 for 6 months, in foreign countries. Subscribers: Report change of address or incorrect address direct to Woman’s Home Journal, Inc., P. O. Box 30, Manila, two weeks before the change is to take effect, giving both the NEW and the OLD addresses. Missing copies should be reported to us not later than the end of the month of issue, otherwise orders for substitutes will not be filled.—Address all Correspondence to Woman’s Home Journal, Inc. • Manila, November, 1937 2 The Third National Girls' Week in the Philippines sponsored by the National Federation of Women's Clubs will be celebrated from December 5 to Decem ber 11 this year. Everybody now is familiar with the aims of this celebration so there is no need to go into them again. As in the last year, the celebra tion of this Week has been left in the hands of the girls themselves to develop their sense of responsi bility and cooperation, but a new note has been introduced into the organization phase of the celebra tion with the appointment of an adviser for each committee to help the girls plan the celebration of each day. It is hoped by the Exe cutive Committee that this year’s different committees will be more successful than those of last year’s in handling the responsibility of the planning and of the celebra tion and in securing the coopera tion of the rest of the girls. The committees are better organized and the girls are more enthusiastic this year. The Organization Meeting was called last November 7th and held at the NFWC headquarters. Each school had been asked beforehand to send eight girls to the meeting, one to represent the school in the Executive Committee and the others to serve in the rest of the com mittees. Each of these seven girls will be responsible for the success ful celebration of a day of the Week in her school. Instead of meeting as one group, the repre sentatives from the different schools were divided into eight small groups or committees, each group meet ing with its adviser. The discus sions were very lively and prac tically all the suggestions came from the girls themselves. The following are the Chairmen of the different committees and the adviser of each: Executive Virginia Oteyza—Chairman Mrs. Pilar H. Lim—Adviser Mrs. Josefa LI. Escoda—Adviser Church Day Helen D. Carbonell—Chairman Mrs. Isabel Regala—Adviser Miss Flor de Lis Santiago—Ad viser Parente And Daughters Day Lourdes Calvo—Chairman Mrs. Mercedes de Joya—Adviser Citizenship Day Filomena Irureta Goyena—Chair man Mrs. Paz Mendez—Adviser Social Service Day Josefina Phodaca—Chairman Mrs. Asuncion A. Perez—Adviser Home Day Jesusa T. Bautista—Chairman Miss Maria Y. Orosa—Adviser Social Day Margarita Araneta—Chairman Frine Asprer—Chairman Pictures taken during ike Organization Meeting. Note girls divided into groups, each group with its adviser. Play Day Mrs. Doreen B. Gamboa—Adviser The following suggestions are given for the celebration of Girls’ Week in the provinces: Recognition Day (Dec ember 4) This day is optional, but if cele brated, a carefully planned parade or pageant should be its main fea trate the girl-power of the comgreat magnet to attract the crowd, the one big opportunity to demons trate the girl—power of the com munity. Every opportunity should be embraced to make the parade interesting, spectacular, and im pressive. Besides increasing the in terest of the adult population, the parade will have a stimulating ef fect on the girls’ attitudes toward the activities of the Week. As far as possible the parade should consist solely of girls both those in and out of schools. Pro per signs and slogans should call the public’s attention to the needs and possibilties of the girls, and em phasis should be made on loyalty to the ideals of the nation. Provide a suitable reviewing stand from which women leaders, town officials, and other * leading citizens may review the parade. If a parade is not practical a Girls’ Pageant can be substituted. If this is well advertised and execut ed, and a large crowd attracted, it will serve just as effectively as a parade. This pageant should include tableaux and skits illustrating the aims of Girls’ Week. A pageant is particularly valuable in that it per mits the girls to utilize their talents in the presentation. Church Day (December S) Arrange for general communion of the girls during one of the mas ses. Request the parish priest to dedicate all the sermons on that day to the girls. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament followed by a Benediction in the afternoon should end this day. A convocation or an open forum under the leadership vf the Catholic Women’s League, Ju nior Catholic League, or the parish priest will make Church Day more interesting. Parents * And Daughters * Day (December 6) By virtue of Proclamation No. 213 issued by the President of the Philippines on October 14, 1937, the first Monday of December has been permanently changed from Mothers’ Day to Parents’ Day. Give much publicity to this day because it concerns not only the girls, but also fathers and mothers. This is a good time for the parents to think through the problems rais ed by the girls these days. Urge fathers and mothers to try to learn more about what their girls are thinking and doing; how to win their full sympathy; and how to establish a more solid comradeship between them. The committee to prepare the program for the day should be com posed of mothers, fathers, and daughters. Include as one of the features of the day a presentation of parents’ grievances, (in general) against their daughters and vice versa. This should be followed by an open forum whereby both sides should be thoroughly discussed and decisions or standards arrived at. The principal teacher of the school or somebody who has had some ex perience in counselling should pres ide in this forum. Citizenship Day (Dec ember 7) Emphasis upon the girls as citi zens should be the keynote of this day’s activities. A “know your gov ernment” endeavor is specially im portant for the girls upon whose shoulders will eventually fall a share in the responsibility for a clean and efficient government. (Continued on page 44) Manila, November, 1$7, helps children to gain in weight and get over their nervousness . A Protective Food I greatly enriches the food value of milk, and makes it easier to di gest. It also aids the digestion of starches. Ovaltine is not like or Are the above pictures typical of what occurs in y our home?... Head how thousands of mothers are solving this problem. 4 vitamins—A, B, D and G—and the miner Ovaltine is a “protec tive” food. It contains supplies proteins and carbohydrates and other elements chil dren need. It therefore dinary foods or mere flavorings for milk. How this food does three things to renew normal appetite and help build up a child... There are literally thousands of mothers in the country who, day in, day out, are faced with the problem of a “neverhungry” child. These women spend hours of their lives coaxing their children to eat. They fray their tempers—the tempers of their children. And the result, usually, is that the child persists in refusing to eat. It isn’t natural for a child to lack ap petite. Yet countless children do not have good appetites. What can you do? One thing which is being used very widely to stimulate hunger in children, is Ovaltine. Thou sands of mothers report amazing re sults from its use. Don’t think Ovaltine is just a “tempt ing” food. It is that—and more. It actually stimulates the sensation of (These drawings made from actual x-rays of stomach) hunger and helps build up a child. If a child’s appetite is lacking, try giving him Ovaltine. Here is the way it acts to help Nature renew appetite and add weight:— 1. It adds to the diet an increased amount of Vitamin B. . . the “appetite restoring” vitamin. 2. It helps digest starchy foods, like bread and potatoes, in the stomach. This enables the stomach to empty sooner so hunger can return sooner. 3. It makes milk easier to digest and more palatable, too. In addition, Ovaltine itself is very easy to digest and, besides, very nourishing. Many children with poor appetites have weak digestions, you know. And, Ovaltine supplies certain “pro tective” factors, such as minerals and other vitamins—which children need. Thus Ovaltine acts in several ways to help build up a child. It is a Swiss food-drink, originated in Switzerland and now made in the U.S.A. Doc tor’s approve it and it is widely used in hospitals THE X-RAYS AT LEFT show two stomachs, each photographed twoand-one-half hours after a starch meal. Observe that the stomach at the left is over half full, where as the othar stomach is nearly empty—this being due to the ac tion of Oraltine in helping to di gest the starch... When the sto mach empties sooner, hunger can return quicker... Serve Ovaltine, often. Sprinkle il on breakfast cereals, too—to help digest them I and institutions. It was originated as a convalescent drink. So... if your child is a problem to you—if he won’t eat his meals properly and just won’t gain—try Ovaltine for a few months to see if it doesn’t renew his appetite. He’ll surely like it. Thousands of mothers report that this—and this alone—has made won derful changes in their children. Children who wouldn’t eat without fretting before. Who were under weight and nervous. Their experience may be yours! It’s certainly worth a serious trial, don’t you think? Then get a tin of Ovaltine from your nearest dealer and start giving it to your child, often. You make a drink of it by simply mixing it with milk, hot or cold. Direc tions are on the can. Don’t go on worrying about your child when Ovaltine’s so inexpensive. Get a large-size tin today. MAIL FOR 2-DAY SUPPLY Ed. A. Keller & Co.. Ltd.. Dept. P. I. 11-2 178(Juim Luna, Wiso Bldg., 1 I IIclose I’.IU to cover cost of packing and mailing, your 2-dny test package of Ovaltine. 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Name ....................................................................... lddre'“ ................... W1I.J — Nov. ”1’93’7” selected Christmas gift that lin gers long among your friends is a year’s subscription to the WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL. It lasts for the whole year of 1938— twelve long happy months to enjoy your remembrance. And each subscription gift is accompa nied with a beautifully p r i n t e d greeting card bearing the name of your friend, mother, sister, or sweet heart, and your name as sender. Also don’t forget to advise us who will receive the unit of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes ticket we are giving away, free, with each subscription gift order received from now until our tickets supply lasts III A sample of t h e greeting card is shown at the right. i Haw New year ST * Woai^HOa,rJo^ A Well Selected Gift Lasts for the whole year or more! What is a good Christmas gift? And where to secure it? There are many answers,. . . but our answer is: a year’s subscription to the WOM AN’S HOME JOURNAL. . .A good gift for that special friend whose taste de mands a distinctive but serviceable gift. And. . . while it costs only P2.00 it echoes your thoughtfulness through out 1938. Remember to tell us to whom we shall send the unit of Phil ippine Charity Sweepstakes ticket we are giving away, free, entitling you or your friend to win P50,000.00 for 1st prize; P25,000.00 for 2nd prize, etc. down to the smaller cash prizes. Time is short. . . and fleeing fast. Why not send the coupon below imme diately so that your gift will reach your friend at Christmas time? ________________________CUT IT HERE AND MAIL IT TODAY--------------------------------------Woman’s Home Journal P. O. Box 30, Manila Please find enclosed P2.00. Send my Christmas gift subscription to the WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL to the address below, and accompany it with your beautifully printed greeting card bearing my name, together with a personal letter of greetings by the President of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs of the Philippines. Address yij't subscription to: Address...................................................................... NOTE: Send One. her, him) the unit of 1>. C. My name and address: Name............................................ A.hl USS........................................................... S, ticket yen ;ire giviUR away, free, with till- order. 5 Manila, November, 1937 1 / Monthly Briefs Important Events Throughout The World. From October 15 To November 15. FOREIGN The number of Italians killed, during the revolts in Ethiopia last month totalled one hundred and two, it was officially learned in Rome, Italy. China expressed apprehension over the possible outcome of the Nine Power Conference, scheduled to take place in Brussels, Belgium, on October 30th, but postponed to November 3rd because of internal crisis which climaxed in the resig nation of Premier Paul Van Zeel and and his cabinet. The deleg ates, China feared, might desire t<> end the present Sino-Japanese hos tilities at any cost and decide on a settlement disadvantageous to China. Japan and Germany declined their invitations to attend the Confer-ence. The Japanese government said the Conference had some con nection with the League of Na tions, with the United States, Great Britain and France taking the lead in an effort to end the Sino-Jap anese war. It is believed that this conference will accomplish little, if any, for satisfactory settling of trouble between China and Japan. Coincident with the departure of Norman Davis, head of the United States delegation to the Brussels conference, six peace organizations in the United States issued a joint statement urging the invocation of the U. S. neutrality act before the conference. The organizations also urged the application of the neu trality act as one measure to pre vent American munitions factories from providing weapons. Franco’s nationalist troops cap tured Gi.jon, last loyalist-controlled seanort of Spain’s Biscavan front. Giion’s military commanders vol untarily surrendered at the face of certain death and destruction upon demand of 130,000 half-starved Spanish refugees. Spanish nationalists captured British steamer Stangrove, carry ing 600 refugees while leaving Gijoii harbor ; the steamer was later re leased and escorted to Bordeaux by British cruiser Southampton. Three British Ulster Rifflemen, guarding a sector of the Interna tional Settlement in Shanghai, were killed and several others wounded during a two-hour shelling of Hungjao by Japanese. Seven Chinese non-combatants were killed or wounded in the same area. Japan expressed regrets which were ac cepted by the British and Amer ican authorities. A foreign office feared the recurrence of similar events. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden told House of Commons that Great Britain had told Japan she must always expect retaliatory fire in ease of repetition of^ptal attack on British post in Shanghai last October 23rd... United States marines, defending a section of the International Settlement, were au thorized by Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, commander-in-chief of the U. S. Asiatic fleet, to open fire on any airplane of any nationality at tacking their positions with air bombs or machine guns. The or der of the Admiral was the out growth of repeated Japanese air attacks on the fringes of the Set tlement. The marines were also or dered to open fire on airmen attack ing non-combatants within the sctor they are defending. President Que-on witnesses awarding and employees during last e< Japan solons urged the severance i of all diplomatic relationships with , B 'fllalMaf continued Mrs. Eleanor B. Smith, leading society woman, "do not bny just any kind ot milk, but ask for BEAR BRAND by its name! There is all the difference in the world. Our children need the natural refreshment of rich pure milk. BEAR BRAND Milk contains all the properties of a nourishing and sustaining food.” of diplomas to model employers ■om mo nit-call It annirersary. Great Britain, saying that since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war, Great Britain had failed to observe neutrality and had been consistent ly helping China in her struggle against Japan. Madame Chiang-Kai-shek suf fered fractured rib and internal shock when one of the tires of the automobile in which she was riding -n route to Shanghai blew out and the machine turned over, hurling her out. In spite of the accident, Aladame Chiang insisted on con tinuing her journey. ritish freighter Jane bombed and sunk by a sixteen miles off the Catalonian coast last October 30th. The crew arrived in a Spanish sea coast town in life boats. British claim Italian airship, said to be piloted by a son of Mussolini, was responsible for the bombing. How ever, investigations were conducted to fix the responsibility. The United States new aggres sive policy in international affairs, is expected to speed up new navy construction to bulwark the na tion’s efforts for world peace with a fleet second to none. Naval ex perts expressed belief the undeclar ed Sino-Japanese war may ulti mately result in the Pacific and the Far East becoming the greatest center of naval and aerial fortifica tions in history. The Japanese Foreign Minister, Hirota, officially apologized for the machine gun death of a British soldier at Shanghai last October na.-a He promised to deal suitably with the responsible airmen and said that Japan would pay com pensation. Hirota termed the shooting accidental.. . The same officer also announced an amicable settlement of the incident involv ing the bombing last month of motorcars bearing British subjects between Shanghai and Nanking. {Continued on next page) c MONTHLY BRIEFS (Continued from page 5) Local Fourteen communists, including Crisanto Evangelista, leader, were conditionally pardoned by Pres ident Quezon last October 15th. Evangelista planned to go to Mon rovia for his health. Dissolution, either voluntary or by legal proceedings, of a number of mining companies will probably result from the general inquiry being conducted by the Bureau of Mines and Securities, Prosecution of officials of said companies found guilty of violating laws and regu lations on mining and disposal of shares is likely to follow. In a report to Malacanang Palace, Sec. Eulogio Rodriguez of agriculture recommended measures to prevent the irregular acquisitio’i of public lands in Mindanao by public officials. Hard-hit by these recommendations are provincial governors and military officers in Mindanao and Sulu. President Quezon warned Philippine Army officers that if they should be found guilty of illegally bolding large tracts of lands they would lose not only their landholdings but also their commissions. Manila may be the seat of the next Institute of Pacific Relations Conference scheduled for this coming April. President Quezon today (Otober 20) revealed he was in favor of amending the Constitution to make the National Assembly a bicameral legislative body with the addition of a senate. Addressing U. P. faculty and board of regents, President Que zon said that “Filipinize the Fili pinos” should be the keynote of Philippine education; the state university should strive for quality instead of quantity. As a result of this talk, many students with poor scholarships were dropped from the University and enrollment for the second semester this year was limited. Members of the National Assem bly, after a lengthy caucus una nimously decided to postpone ac tion on the recommendation of President Quezon for early inde pendence, found in his message nt the opening of the present session, until receipt of the report of the Joint Preparatory Committee on Philippine affairs. Dr. Manuel L. Roxas, technical assistant to the President on detail with the National Development Corporation announced two na tional government industrial pro jects: can-making plant, and fishand-vegetable cannery. The abrogation of the “gentle men’s agreement” between the United States and Japan in con nection with the importation of tex tiles from these two countries into the Philippines so as to make the Philippines an open market for textiles again may be urged by some members of the Joint Preparatory Committee on Philippine Affairs. Speaker Montilla planting' a molave tree on the grounds of the Legislative Building to commem orate the second anniversary ofthe Philippine Commonwealth. The committee experts are reported to have found that the United Sta tes is in a disadvantaageous posi tion under the agreement. President Quezon asked the Na tional Assembly for a big increase for Army outlay in the 1938 bud get, which is greater than last year’s but less than the expected national income. The Pihilippine Nautical School may be reorganized along lines to convert it into a naval academy with t he Commonwealth plan to build up a “mosquito fleet” of speedy torpedo sea sleds. Retirement age for all govern ment employees has been fixed at 70 years in a proposed bill amend ing Bill No. 388. Upon reaching this age, the employee is automati cally dropped from the government service. Because of the present trouble in China, many United States firms plan to choose Manila as the base for their Far Eastern operations. The Philippines has lost much of her trade because of the Spanish and Sino-Japanese wars. Not even a peso entered the Philippines from Spain last month, the bureau of commerce revealed. President Quezon scored birth control, in one of his weekly press conferences sajajig that i\was un patriotic. Abdut 200,000 women voters re gistered last month for the coming elections for provincial and muni cipal officials in December. Personal Twenty-six-vear-old Miss Jean Batten from New Zealand, Austra lia, completed her Australia-En gland solo flight in five days and eighteen and a half hour, thus breaking the record established by Harry Broadbent who negotiated the same distance in six days, eight hours and seventy-five minutes. Among the many candidates for City councillors are two women, Jfrs. Vicenta Vda. de Foz and Carmen Planas, , third year law student at the state university. Miss Planas was recently in the lime light when rumors arose that dis ciplinary action was being contem plated against her for taking part in politics. Dean Espiritu of her college denied the rumors saying that students at the U. P. are free to take part in politics. Only faculty members are prohibited from political activities. Princes Elizabeth, heir apparent Io the English throne, attended the opening of (lie British Parliament last October 2fith. She occupied the box of the Lord Great Cham berlain. Verne E. Miller celebrated last October 28th thirty years of con tinuous service with the Philippine Education Company. Ho is the president of this firm, which start, ed in 1907 as a magazine stand. Brigadier General Creed F. Co.v, retired U. S. armv officer and form er chief of the U. S. bureau of ii: sular affairs, arrived in Manila last November first to assume duties as advisor to the CommonweaHh government. Mrs. Victoria Lopez Araneta was very much in the news last month as the founder of the White Cross, an organization pledged to help the children of tubercular parents. Professor Emma P. Gan, Ph. D.. of Mount Holyoke College, was the recipient of the first award of the American Chemical Society—a gold medal—established by Fran cis P. Garvan of New York, to honor outstanding women chemists. She was recognized for her work and investigation in the field of ab sorption spectro at Mount Holyke where she is the head of the chemistry department. Lincoln Ell worth, famous Amer ican Po’ar explorer, was awarded the British Royal Geographical So ciety Patrons’ gold medal for his aerial navigation research in the Polar regions, especially his transaantartie flight in the winter of 1935. The medal Ellsworth received was a gift from the King. Juan Posadas, Jr. was re-ap pointed mayor of the city of Ma nila. City Engineer Jose Garrido acted as mayor during the time when his (Posada’s) appointment Manila, November, 1937 CORRECTIONS The name of Mrs. Con cepcion Felix Rodriguez was inadvertently omitted from the list of speakers in the write-up on the Na tional Luncheon sponsored by the NFWC last October 3rd which appeared on our Social Notes page last month. Mrs. Rodriguez, who is one of our most elo quent speakers gave the toast, in Tagalog, in honor of Mrs. Quezon. The word encourages was incorrectly used by the writer of the article, I’ll Teach My Daughter This, which appeared in our issue last month, in re producing the opinion of Mrs. Maiano H. de Joya on the subject of bringing up daughters. The senten ces should read thus: For instance, she (Mrs. de Joya) does not tell her daughters not to use make-up or not to have boy-friends. Instead she allows them to use make up or to receive their boy friends, but in the proper way. was pending at tbe National As sembly. The mayor of New York City, F. II. La Guardia, was re-clected. Sino-Japanese War Japanese troops captured last October 18 a village north of Shang hai after annihilating a Chinese regiment composed of 1,400 sol diers... The Japanese were push ing drive to force the Chinese out. of Shanghai before the Nine Power Conference convened in Brussels.... More than 10,000 Japanese soldiers were in danger of being cut off from their base, twelve miles north west of Shanghai when 40,000 Chinese soldiers took the offensive and broke into their lines in a heavy fighting... Japanese au thorities served notice to some foreign consuls declining to assume responsibility for the safety of neutral motorcars proceeding to ward Nanking.. . A lone Chines-' flier destroyed seven Japanese planes in a slick trick. He follow ed these planes without being de tected until he flew above them and dropped bombs... The Japanese army won one of the most import ant victories of the battle in Shang hai area by the capture of an im(Continued on page 77) 7 Manila. November, 1937 J . -HOME? JO^NAl ' V 7 f OFFICERS Mrs. PILAR H. LIM Prrtident Mrs. SOFIA R. DE VEYRA ltt Vicf-Pretidmi Mrs. F. C. CADWALLADER end Vice-President Mrs. JOSEFA LL. ESCODA Secretary Mrs. GERONIMA T. PECSON Trraaurer Mrs. JULIA V. ORTIGAS A»si. Trensurer Natioual Serration of Wnntrn’s Cliihs nf ifjr Philippines HEADQUARTERS: 1132 CALIFORNIA. CORNER SAN MARCELINO P. O. Box 80 MANILA TEL. 5-77-81 MEMBERS Board of Director! Miss Mrs. Miss Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. BESSIE A. DWYER N. ALMEDA-LOPEZ RO8ARIO OCAMPO LAURA SHUMAN ALICIA QUIRINO ROSA SEVILLA ALVERO PURA V. KALAW JOSEFA JARA MARTINEZ CONCEPCION F. RODRIGUEZ Dear Fellow Club Women: NOW that the Filipino woman has been granted the right of suffrage, she has imposed upon herself an obligation which she must exercise like a good mother of a family. We conceived of woman s suffrage for the Filipino wom en years ago. It developed and took form under all sorts of hardships. Fi nally it became a reality, something to be proud of, when by a concerted effort of more than 400,000 women, we decided that suffrage must be ours now and forever. It is our obligation now to prove our claim to suffrage is deserved by using our vote to help cleanse politics. In our debates the cynics have laughed and contradicted us, but we have stood our ground by furnishing statistics and illustrations. Today, it is no longer a mere class debate but a real elec tion. Can we really purify, help insure fairness and justice during the elec tions? We can. The ways and means have all been shown to us. To repeat them would be trite and tiresome. Juit remember that suffrage is our child, a creation of our ideals, therefore we must rear it like a good mother of a fam ily, ever zealous of its welfare. Our purifying influence will thereby be a fact and not a fiction. The conservation of the Filipino home should be our concern today as it has always been in the past. It is built on a foundation of centuries of tradition and it could not possibly be disrupted now. Nevertheless, it would be unwise for us to rely only on the strength of our structure without making repairs and reinforcements. I must admit that as a people we are passionate and in elections passion is always involved. As mothers of this country, we have an equal or even greater duty to maintain peace and happiness in the conservation of our homes. In using the ballot we must not forget our fam ily and home. We must harmonize tbrse elements together, that is, we must use the vote in order to stabilize the home as the unit of the nation. Fraternally yours, 8 WOMAN’S HOMPV. »V. ’ 'Manila, November, 1937 Among Oii^selves... THEN Thanksgiving — a holiday we have adopted from America, but which, right now, we might make our own in order to celebrate the many graces and gifts for which we should be thankful. The Filipino woman would be ungrateful, indeed, if she does not, with a glad heart, raise her voice in Thanksgiving for her enfranchisement —her newly acquired right to take active part in governmental affairs. For this is a gift which has been long in coming and, therefore, all the more cherished because of the de lay. And this is a gift of the Filipino woman of today to the Filipino woman of to morrow, hence is a gift that dhall never spend itself out. What else is there to be grateful for? Look around you, feel around you, and the answer is there. In the midst or war and strife, we enjoy peace and quiet. Sons and husbands, fathers and friends are lost daily to thousands of women the world over — we have our husbands, our sons, our fathe s, our friends, safe and sound among us. But we cannot be selfish in our safety, tho ightless in the peacefulness that we enjoy. While grateful for the mercies that we are receiving, let us pray that the warring nations would soon find a peaceful solution to their differences, so that the scourge of war may disappear forever from the face of the earth. * * * November is a month replete with significance. It commemorates so many worth while events in the world’s history, in American history, in Philippine history. And since we are Filipinos, the import of this month to us is greater in the events that touch our lives the most, than in those which we share with other peoples and countries. Therefore, we shall speak first of November 15, the second anniversary of the Philippine Commonwealth. We are inclined to call aloud, as the street-wardens in old times, assuring the inhabitants that everything was going along fine, “Third year, and all is well!” — for, indeed, all has gone remarkably well with our “trial self-govern ment.” There have been mistakes, no doubt, — for, what human institution is infal lible? — but, by and large, the Commonwealth government has proved and is proving that the Filipinos can take care of their affairs quite efficiently. The next in line of importance, is November 30th, designated as National Heroes’ Day. On this day we are reminded of the debt of gratitude that we owe the heroes of our land. Of little import, however, would be all that “we say here.” as long as we do not, by deeds, show, that we are emulating “what they did here”. Manila, November 10^7^ HOM& * JOURNAL 9 IDEAL MOTHER: Doha Teodora Alonzo, Mother of Dr. Jose Rizal (shown above). “MY family has never been patriotic for money. If the government has enough funds and it does not know what to do with it, better reduce the taxes.” Those were the em phatic words of Dona Teodora in answer to a proposition of the Philippine Assembly three decades ago to bestow on her a pension for life in consid eration for her being the mother of our national hero. Dona Teodora was great not only because of that un selfish spirit which she show ed when she refused to receive a pension from the govern ment, nor because she was the fortunate mother of our na tional hero, but also because she furnishes an ideal exam ple of the typical Filipino mother who believes in a big family, her own embracing eleven children, nine girls and two boys, for whom through self-abnegation and self-sacri fice and with a happy heart The FIVE FILIPINO WOMEN By Eulogio Acting Director, and a smiling face, she strain ed herself to the limit that they might be educated and furnished all the comforts and conveniences of life and thus be happy. The sacred family ties this attitude entails, are a genuine Filipino institution. It should not perish nor should it be submerged under the rising tide of the modern fashion of family dissension and disintegration. She was a very successful business woman who did her business in a grand scale. In those days when a thousand pesos was regarded as a big capital, Dona Teodora invest ed P10.000 to P15,000 in the sugar industry. It was great ly due to her success in busi ness that Rizal could enjoy the opportunity of studying abroa^- and it was that too which at one time enabled him to flee from his persecutors. She Aerself was a victim of persecutions which she bore withMignity and self-mastery not rare among Filipino wom en. Dona Teodora inherited the mathematical mind of her mother and of her grand mother. Sh knew and loved good poetry, and she herself wrote verses. She was college bred and possessed a learning unequalled in her time and probably unexcelled by any Filipino woman even up to the present. It. was her hand that sup ported the head of her new born baby, Jose, w h o s o achievement in later life is beyond human praise. “The teaching which I received from my earliest infancy is perhaps what formed my ha bits,” said Rizal. “My moth er wast teaching me to read in a Spanish reader called The Children’s Friend. When her sight was good, she read very well. She could recite well, and she unde^ood verseGREATEST B. Rodriguex National Library making too. Many times dur i n g Christmas vacations, my mother corrected my poet ical compositions, and she always made valuable criti cism.” After Rizal had received JN selecting the five greatest women in Philippine History, Assistant Director Eulogio B. Rodriguez of the National Library, followed this method: He made a list of all the outstanding women in every field of activity, during the Spanish regime, classi fied them according to their achievements, then he chose the most outstanding in each group. Each of these five women is great because she has to her credit an achievement so outstanding as to entitle her to individual recognition and she pos sessed qualities which raised her above her fellow women. Each surely deserves a place in the list of Great Filipinos. So, it is fitting that we honor them on our pages during this month whan National He roes Day is celebrated. lrom experience bitter lessons much more bitter than that sweet teaching which his mother gave him he recollect ed those sweet frolic youth by saying, “Till then I had shed tears only for my own faults, which my loving, prudent mother will know how to cor rect.” “At nightfall, my mother had us all say our prayers together,” Rizal continued. “Once she read to me a moral tale The Moth and the Candle. The meth had been told by her mother to keep away from the flame. She heeded her not and she met her doom. After this story as she put me to bed my mother said, See that you do not behave like the young moth. Don’t be dis obedient, or you may get burnt like her.” “Years have passed since then,” added Rizal. “The child has become a man. He has crossed the most famous riv ers of other countries. He has studied beside their broad streams. Steamships have carried him across seas and oceans. He has climbed moun tains much higher than the Makiling of his native prov ince, up to perpetual snow. He has received from exper ience bitter lessons, much more bitter than that sweet teaching which his mother gave him. Yet, in spite of all, the man still keeps the heart of a child. He still thinks that light is the most beautiful thing in creation, and that it is worth a man’s sacrificing for.” Dona Teodora is the best example of an ideal Filipino mother. Without complaint (Continued on page 33) WOMAN’S '] f 1U CHINA’S “WOMEN of the HOUR’2MJCH has been written about the remarkable Soong girls, who have been making history for the last few years. China admires them and respects them, and is rightfully proud of them. They are, in the order of their ages, Madame Kung, whose husband is the Minister of Finance, Madame Sun Yat Sen, whose husband is wor shipped as the founder of the Chinese Republic, and Ma dame Chiang Kai-shek, whose husband was at one time pre sident of the Republic, and is at present the powerful gen eralissimo of the Chinese ar mies. As no unmarried woman could possibly achieve great power, it is no wonder that the Soong women exercised Order you_r I BIRTHDAY and WEDDING CAKES from us WE KNOW HOW “LA PERLA” Inc. 228 Plaza Sta. Cruz, Manila Tel. 2-83-77 By IP, S. Castrence Madame Chiang .Kai-Shek, the potver behind China’s dictator. Madaane Kung, wife of China’s Minister of Finance. Madame Sun Yat Sen, widow of the father of China's Re public. their huge influence only af ter marriage. But when they marry, they do not drown their remarkable identities in those of their husbands. Their greatness stands out recognized and accepted. The founder of the distinguished Soong dynasty was a dominating matriarch gen erally known as the Mother in-Law of the Chinese Repub lic, who, in 1886, had married a self-made teacher-trader named Charlie Jones Soong. Like herself, her husband had adopted the religion and ways of the West. The first of their daughters, Ai-Ling, married into the aristocratic Kun.< family, and, it is now frankly accepted that Madame Kung’s husband would have been a weak and ineffectual man without his strong wife. Ma dame Kung is the least attrac tive of the Soong sisters, but not the least forceful. Her ability is largely executive. For a time, due to her enor Manila, November, 1937 mous influence, popular re sentment was stirred against her. But clever as she was, she made the gesture of with drawing herself from public notice, but continued to wield her power in the national af fairs. At present, while not actually loved, there is no doubt that she is greatly ad mired in China. She holds no title, has no recognized place in the government, but it is an open secret that she is China’s minister of finance. Ching-ling, Madame Soong’s most lovely daughter, idealist from her beautiful, dignified, face to the tips of her exqui site hands, married an equal ly idealistic dreamer, Sun Yat Sen, China’s liberator. The story of Madame Sun Yat Sen’s early life, her being sec retary to her husband, their falling in love with each other, his having to divorce his first wife, who was’good, and faith ful, and simple, is a much-told story. It was a rare marriage. Ching-Ling gave to Sun Yat Sen a new strength and cla rity of vision. Together the two worked, her brilliant mind feeding his, making him far greater than he would have been had he striven alone. Then, just as the rev olution was at its height, death took him, and he left a widow who was later to feel that the people her husband had liberated were betraying him. Today Madame Sun Yat Sen is in touch with Commu nistic organizations which are working against Chiang Kaishek. This brings us to the third and perhaps most remarkable Soong girl, Mei-Ling, Madame Chiang Kai-shek. More prac tical than the idealistic Ma dame Sun, yet not believing, as Madame Kung does, in the {Continued on page 34) WISE -GJ Inc. DiB-rniBu*i~ORO Manila, November, i&A HOMk-JOURNAL J t 11 Introducing Reddy Kilowatt Your Electrical Servant HE WILL WORK Longer Hours For Less Pay Without Complaint Without Mistakes Without Supervision Without Vacations Reddy says. -The world calls me the world’s champion servant because I can do everything except make your bed and take your medicine. I can cook your food, run your refrigerator, light your home run your radio, keep you cool, polish your floors, toast your bread, make your coffee, wash your clothes and iron em, run your sewing machine, keep perfect time heat your water, and many other servant jobs.” “When you want me, turn a switch and I am there instantly; when I’m not wanted I keep strictly out of sight, and don’t gossip.” “And the harder I work for you the less I cost per hour; this is important for you to remember because I am entirely different from any other servant you ever had. Even overtime will not make any difference to me.” “So, instead of thinking of me as ‘kilowatt hours’, as I have been known for many years, you will in the iuture recognize me as ‘servant hours’ and be more than glad to have me around, doing more jobs in your home every day; and when I present my bill for service ren dered you will gladly pay it.” Reddy Kilowatt -MANILA ELECTRIC CO. 134 San Marcelino, Manila j/oAila, November, 1937 ' V. WOMAN'S ’jy61E jo I 12 > Women at the Crucible! By Francisco THE spotlight is on wom en. Registration and election days there have been many; but the past registration days and the impending election pre sent a novel spectacle that at once arrest the attention and create interest. Women trooping to the polls — the R. Fernando wealthy and middle class la dies in their new dresses, the poor ones, the field workers and the house drudges in their old and moth-eaten raiments—are a sight. Wom en in vehicles—cars, carrom a t a s, bicycles!—are a sight, and excite a lot of dust and noise. In places, womThe Perfume Sensation of 1937 VOTE—TAKE NO CHANCE—VOTE “NOW the day draws near when each citizen is put to test. The test is simple: will you cast your ballot or will you neglect it? There are of course other more particular questions: have you studied the issues and the candidates; will you vote intel ligently and according to your conscience or will you be swayed by demagoguery, prejudice, selfish interest? But important as these questions are, they are secondary. The primary test is whether you do or do not vote at all. In many communities the number of people who fail to vote is appalling, and the pity of it is that the great majority of these delinquents are the solid able presumably responsible citizen^ whose votes ought to balance the ignorant and ill-consid ered. Otherwise intelligent persons often figure out inadequate excuses for not voting: ‘It’s all politics anyway,’ or ‘My one vote wouldn’t count among so many.’ To dismiss the whole subject as politics is silly; of course it is politics, our country is run by politics and the whole idea is that each of us should take part. To shun the polls because the “rabble” are there is snobbery and affectation. And to say that one vote doesn’t count is not only bad arithmetic but misses the whole point. Even if your district is known to be overwhelmingly for one party or another, your vote counts, either to build up a more impressive majority for your candidate if he is the winner, or to lessen by so much the margin of his defeat. The processes of demo cracy are long and slow. A smashing victory, a gallant losing fight, a strong “protest vote”, a close shave, each has its special influence on the future conduct of the party in power, on the continuing organization of the defeated party and therefore on the next election. Finally, and most important, it is always pos sible that your vote might be the very one to swing the election. No amount of trial polls and forecasts can surely predict an election. Often there is a great ground swell of “silent voters” which upsets all calculations. Therefore if you care at all about how your town is to be run for the next three years, you may be taking a chance you will bitterly regret if you fail to cast your ballot on December fourteen.” en are brought to the polls in launches and boats. Without exception, women feel a fresh sense of import ance. For the first time, woman is courted by those who seek public office. In past elections, women might have also their choice among aspirants for elective posi tions; but further than in fluencing men voters to vote for their choice, they could do nothing to elect or prevent the election of a candidate. Women’s helplessness in the past was a catastrophe and a blessing. For some women, particularly those of (Continued on page 46) FOR OCEAN PEARL BUTTONS Sold by: all good perfumery stores Sole-agents: MENZI & CO., INC. 180 Juan Luna Manila Made in Manila COME TO OUR STORE AT 460 Calle Dasmarinas MANILA BUTTON FACTORY, INC. 13 A Short Story By Herminia Ancheta WE leaned against the sides of the boat to get another look at the pier before the s.s. Mayon sailed away on the blue waters of the bay. Lazily we watched the ferry boats chugging their way in the op posite direction. We scarcely utter ed a word until suddenly it was night and the ferry boats were nothing but glimmering specks on the grayish light on the glassy sur face. To travel that many hundred miles from home to a place where I knew there was grinding work awaiting us, gave me little anticipa tion of good times. It was the first time 1 was to travel that far. But then there was Miss Helen Jones, and American English critic teach er, to keep me company the whole voyage. We were on our way to Zamboanga to teach in the Normal Training School. Miss Jones must have been in her middle forties, past the second flush of youth; at an age when American women can appear most deceitful in age. “We shall have a beautiful voy age, I suppose,” her voice sound ed in my ears. “Let’s hope for the best,” I an swered dropping on a chair near by. Miss Jones remained standingfive feet two high above me. Her face, soft and sad, was bold ly outlined against the swelling darkness. She had the face of a woman who seemed to have met some great sorrow in life but was bravely showing the world that she could not be crushed. The dancing lights from the ship accentuated the contour of her face and the graceful swing of her slim body. She must have been ten years my senior, neat, capable and good at repartee. Her conversation, dyed with witticisms u.'ise her a personalil> of her own. I’ntil that time I could not undei -(and what kept her from marriage. She made me wonder vaguely if SO RICH YOU ENJOY EACH CUP MORE r cih: be so sad, a caieless ad venture perhaps—such as in a slop like this. May be a flirtation that would not last as long as we desir ed. But how could I know? Some such things can sweeten an elderly woman’s sad smile as it did sweeten Miss Jone's. The sea breeze sighed below u-. The sea was calm. The night was beautiful. We must have been there on the deck a long time when the mess bell rang. Miss -Jones led the talk. She would volunteer narrating her ex periences in the States, many of which were original and good baits lor a chorus of laughter from our fellow passengers. Certain it was I hat after the first night of our i rip she became a great favorite among the more mature passengers who delighted in harmless gossip. It was the second night. The moon was just beginning to touch the tip of the horizon. It was still day, but soon it would be evening. The deck was deserted. The male passengers were busy playing chess, while the women were engaged in a long conversation. 1 strolled out. The call of the silver-sheened waters beckoned to me. A soft breeze pass ed by, and I felt a coquettish stray hair on my face. It was life pul sating. The setting could have been perfect, only— ‘•What a beautiful night we have to-night. Does it no.t make you feel romantic?'’ whispered a voice be hind me. Startled, I looked back and met the smiling face of my visi tor. He must have been there a long time behind me, for I did not hear his approach. He mumbled a polite apology and stared at me with mixed admiration and guilt. At first I gave him a cold stare. “You seem to have the habit of speaking to people you have not been introduced to,” I answered. “Oh, you see—I’m feeling lone ly,” he said. I forced a smile tn cover my amazement. “Pardon, Juan Amador is my name,” he continued faintly mak ing a slight bow. “You’ll not think me ill man nered for intruding,” he added. “Oh—er, yes—no,” I stammered. (Continued on page 47) (^HASE & Sanborn Coffee is blended from the world’s choic est coffees. This makes it extra rich. As a result you get more satis faction from each cup. You can tell how rich it is the moment you open the can—the aroma is so tempting. Its fine quality and superb full flavor have everywhere, restaurants blend. made it a favorite The finest hotels and serve this delicious Yet it’s a real econ omy, because it’s rea sonably priced—and its extra richness gives you more real enjoyment per cup. Try Chase & Sanborn Coffee — sold in al) the best grocery sto res. 11 'rVjyoi^5N’^HOiy|E jot^nai; S V THE KIND OF ADVICE WHICH RESULTS WHEN Father Meets Son By J. P. McEvoy DEAR SON: time draws you to take springboard, increasingly AS THE near for off the you seem to be anxious. Are you going to make a neat dive or are you going to land on your face? You have been getting a lot of advice about marriage, and you will get a lot more. As long as you live, people will be telling you what to do and what not to do. I wouldn't The author and his wife. have stepped into this, only you asked me. The old man is no prophet. The only thing he can te.l you with any degree of as surance is that you will get a lot of advice, but that you won’t take any of it. Young couples have to find on. everything for themselves. All the old truths that mil lions fought and bled an.l died over must be redisco vered to have any validity. It seems a great pity and a terrible waste of time and energy, but apparently there is nothing to be done about it. Everything you will ever need to know about mal iig your marriage happy is com mon knowledge, and I cou d tell it to you in five minutes, but unless you are the won der boy of the age, you won’t register it — much 1c u use it. The principal thing to re member is so simple, it wil! take you years to figure out: Making a success of mar riage takes just the cam' kind of doing as making a success of anything else in life, for marriage is n >L. something apart from life, it’s a part of life its 11 You’ve already discovere.l that to be a success in you • job, you have to work at it. If you want to get along wi h the boss, you have to make the effort. If you want to get along with your custom ers, you have to study ways to please them. You have learned not to make promises that you can’t keep; you have learned you must keep the promises you make. Manila, \oycnia-r. Marriage is a job you know nothing about, so you will have to study it and you will have to work at it, and the very same technique you are using to make a success ful career will go a long way toward making a successful marriage. Think of your wife as a partner and marriage as a going concern. Busine s partners divide the responsi bilities and the duties of the business. They consult to gether, they compromise their differences, they trust each other and they present a uni ted front against the world. If they didn’t do all these things, how long do you sup pose their partnership would last? And yet, all around you, you will see husbands and wives who are in the business of life together, who don’t share the respon sibilities and duties of the job, don’t consult together, don’t compromise their dif ferences. don’t trust each o'her, yet each blames the other because their marriage is not successful. You will be told wives are hard to handle; but there is nothing so easy to handle as a wife, provided you don’t try too hard. Just make her happy and keep her busy, and she will handle herself. And I would add you have gone a long way toward mak ing her happy when you keep her busy. More wom en are unhappy because they haven’t enough to do than for any other reason. A man does a woman no kindlier, when he makes it difficult or' impossible for her to keep her time fully occupied. Give her a lot of responsibility; let her have her own depart ments and let her run them. Let her feel that she is help ing you, that you need her. that you couldn’t get along without her. Take a genuine interest in what she does, but keep your hands out of it un less she asks you. You will be living on your . alary, so you won’t have much money to argue about; but that’s when people argue the most. Arrange your fin ances so you have as few dis cussions as possible about money. If you have only three dollars a week each for Manila, November, 1937 spending money, don’t dole it out to each other. Each of you should have your own personal account, just as you have your own toothbrush, and into these accounts should go your own personal allowances — they should go there quietly, painlessly and automatically, to be spent any way you like, and should never be referred to again by either party. There is some thing indelicate, if not inde cent, about handling money, or talking about it, and ar guments about money are in finitely degrading. Just now Gloria seems per fect. Go right on thinking so. After you have been married a while, you will see all kinds of things you would like to suggest. Restrain that crea tive impulse! Let her alone. This may encourage to let alone too. People don’t change. Their characters are already established, their ha bits are fixed, their likes and dislikes all deeply rooted. Good energy is wasted by husbands and wives trying to remodel each o’.her. You _ WOMAN’S wouldn’t try to remodel your boss or your best customer; you ignore his faults and compliment him on his vir tues. Apply the same tech nique to getting along with your wife. The effect is startling, the results miracu lous. One of the hardest things for a young fellow to remem ber about marriage is that his wife is a woman. Too often he gets to thinking about her as another kind of a man, only smaller, and more unreasonable. Most of the time wives aren’t un reasonable at all — they are just feminine. Now you think it is cute and charming for Gloria to be so unpredictable; go right on thinking so, be cause she is going to get more unpredictable all the time. There is nothing mys terious about the feminine viewpoint, but it’s hard to ex plain. You have to exper ience it. For one thing, it’s very personal. It is very dif ficult for a woman to argue objectively. When you dif(Continued on page 44) •THE CHILO NEXT DOOR* h/IAMAJ THIS CAKE 15 DELICIOUS—CAN I HAVE SOME MORE, Something is wrong when this child says, “Mama, I am not hun gry! But, perhaps there’s nothing wrong with the child—maybe it’s the food! Look at the child next door. She likes the cake her mother pre pared—and for that matter, any other dish. For her mother uses STAR MARGARINE to make her recipes delicious—and does her loved one like them! BUY A TIN TODAY FROM YOUR GROCER 15 THE FILIPINO CHRISTIAN’S RESPONSIBILITY ' . IN THE CHINA-JAPAN CRISIS QNLY about a month from now Christmas carols will re mind us of the heavenly message, “On earth peace, goodwill toward the men”. We are approaching the birth day of the Prince of Peace. The roar, confusion and ter rible destruction of war is out of tune with the heavenly symphony. What are we doing and thinking about it? Japan and China are in a death struggle against each other. We cannot be indefferent to it all for no nation lives unto itself and moreover they are our brothers. Sol diers, children, women, old people, crops, buildings, art arid all the finer things of life are being crushed and des troyed. Perhaps from the diplomat’s stand point there is not much we can do. But we believe in a wise and a just God. We know there is power thru earnest prayer, for Saint James said, “The prayer of a righteous man availeth much in its working”. While we are thinking and praying for other ways God might use us in this matter, may we not immediately unite in daily prayer to Almighty God for speedy and honorable peace. In addition to its spiritual significance to us, it will surely encourage and help to sustain hope among the people directly affected by the situation. God can change the des tiny of nations. Let us have a NOON-HOUR Prayer Link of all the Christians of the Philippines. Five (or 2) minutes every day at noon time, may we all keep silent and pray to God: 1. For the key-officials of both China and Japan that they may have a vision of God’s way of solving their troubles and that they may have the courage to follow His will. 2. For the entire nations of China and Japan to reconsider their ways and follow the path of righte ous, just and mutually helpful relations. 3. For the Spirit of God to descend upon the suffering ones in comfort, love and cheer in the face of dark ness; that God’s face may shine upon them and keep them from losing faith. 4. That the nations of the world may be moved to genuine sympathy and help to the sufferers of war so that they may readily extend material aid to alleviate pain, hunger and nnkedness. In addition to this daily prayer link let all of us in clude in the priestly prayers during the Mass the coming of peace and a Christlike solution to the crisis in China. 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But we go through the force, the while bombs are shatter ing factories, homes and pub lic buildings across the China Seas, not so many miles away from our own peaceful shores. News reels shout out war to us, newspapers with glaring Women set strange barricades Against the cannon’s thunder: Ruffles at the window To keep out death and plunder. Pools of homely lamplight To circle loved ones in, Four walls for peace and safety— But, oh! the walls are thin; Close on the other side of them The tinder piles up high, Bullets start their clattering, Shadows fill the sky. They could be stopped. But a woman Like a savage mumbling charms, Says “Let us hope,’’ and gathers Her sons into her arms. these healthy Dionne Quins had Quaker Oats • Who is there that would not rely on the great est vote of confidence ever given t;> a cereal food —the selection of Quaker Oats for the Dionne Quins? What better proof exists that Quaker Oats is the ideal cereal for all, young and old alike? 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The last world war left such misery, devastation, and sor row that for a time it did seem to be the war that was to end all wars. Europe was, up to a comparatively short time ago. still tingling painfully from its lashes, and statesmen were warily and tactfully evading delicate issues which might precipitate international quar rels. The armistice still had a meaning. Before the Sino-Japanese conflict (they tell us it is not officially a war, as though of ficial records, and not the wanton taking of lives consti tute the term), war to us was still only a far-away echo of something that was sad and terrible. It had not touched us. Today we can all but hear reverberations of cannonshots, we can all but see the air-raids which are tearing away the foundations of cities, towns, and villages. The Fili pino representatives to the International Education Asso ciation Conference which took place in Tokio last August have come back with tales of war-noises and war-terrors, of pitiful scenes of devastation iContinnefl on paar 31) Manila, November, 1937' WOMAN’S 17 EdRWTCESS « + JPAW1PE1R. £UCINDA Chardon, dressed in slacks, a sun-shirt and sandals, lay in a green-cushioned deck chair on a penthouse terrace and looked out over the sparkle of the East River. She was twentv-three and a half, and, in spite of her brown hair and browner eyes, a great many millions of people in the United States of America knew of her as “the Platinum Princess.” That was and the Riviera—the areal, guard ed estates, the town houses wired for alarm; (he parties and the dance music, the clients, the cranks, the suitors, the hangers-on. There had been four of them for years: the four new heiresses—the Four Richest Girls in the World, to put it in headlines—the four little pigs who had to go to market, she thought, with an ironic droop of t he mouth. And now Molly Melchoir had married her second title—a Spanish one, this time, and wai ranted gen uine — and Patricia Madison was marrying Josh Stanhope today, and Josh had ideas and charm amt was second-generation rich—so Pa tricia, on the whole, was lucky. The flash bulbs and the notebooks would follow them all their lives and they’d never get out of the machine — but at least Patricia would not wake some morning and wonder just what she had bought. Though Molly Melchoir liked talk ing about “dear cousin Alfonso” and having little coronets on her handkerchiefs. Well, those were two ways. The third one was Daphne Wing’s. It had been a beautiful romance — “Millionairess Weds Childhood Sweetheart; Will Live Simply on Husband’s Farm and Do Own Housework, Says Nitrate Princess; ‘Tell My Family I am Madly Happy.’ ” Yes, all of that. And pictures of Daphne in a bun galow apron. And pictures of El mer Peabody, in clean overalls, with his arm around her—a nicelooking, honest face. Later pic tures of the cow, the twins and the (Continued on page 42) because Cyrus Charden had made his first money in platinum, before he became Allied Metals and a legend. And at the moment Lucinda was wishing, with some violence, that she had been born the daugh ter of an Eskimo seal-hunter, in stead. 30 to 40 Real Strawberries give their flavor to every package of Royal Strawberry Gelatin She picked up the afternoon pa per beside her and looked at it again. “PATRICIA MADISON MARRIES,” screamed the headline in huge letters across the front page. 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Address . . . __________________________________ I 18 A; JOURNAL- Manila, November, 1937 1132 California, Manila October 20, 1937 Hon. Leon G. Guinto Commissioner of Public Safety Manila, Philippines Sir: We, the undersigned, Civic Com mittee, Manila .Woman’s Club, most urgently bring to your atten tion the deplorable condition of the Fire Department of the City of Manila, a condition that has A Beautiful ^ffOman’s Bule for Boveliness! Be naturally colorful—but avoid that "made-up" look—never look painted. The Color Change Principle in Tangee lipstick, powder and rouge intensifies your own natural coloring. Be sure all of your make-up essentials are Tangee. Try the Day and Night Creams and Cosmetic for eyelashes. •1 PIECE MIRACLE MAKE-UP SET P. O. Box 1345 Manila P. I. Send Miracle Make-Up Set of miniature Tangeo Lipstick, Rouge Compact, Creme Rouge. Face Powder. I enclose 25 ctvos. Tancce lipstick. 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Country Manila Women Ask For: New Fire Stations Improvement Of Fire Department Police Women & Women Precinct from the erection of vast struc tures in height and in value, and in the potential immolation of the persons residing therein. Rotten hose, fire engines so an tiquated as to provoke public de rision, lives sacrificed for lack of ladders to save those who leapt from five story windows and died from injuries, were common. This Club has 'appealed to the City Council during these years without the gaining of so much as the installation of new engine. Even when eleven girls in the Girls’ Training School, Taft Avenue, were burned to a crisp, March 1933, and it publicly developed that there was no fire alarm boxes nearer than San Andres Street, no action for a long time was taken, because of “no funds”. Millions have been lost in flames that might have been curbed, in numerable ’ deaths have occurred, districts, like Tondo and the Intramuros, have been holocausts and values that are not recoverable, such as the Museum of the Ateneo de Manila, completely destroyed. Only the mercy of Divine Provi dence and the courage and daunt less spirit of an unappreciated Fire Department, has stood between the public and a deserved fire visi tation of such proportions as to stagger the imagination. GOOD-BYE TO ACID STOMACH New Alkaline Way to Quickly Relieve Sour Stomach, Headaches, Colds, Acid Indigestion Ninety percent of the people who suffer with these common, everyday ailments arc victims of EXCESS ACIDITY. Scientists tell us that to keep well and healthy our bodies must be slightly more alkaline than acid. Most of us bring on an excess acid condition by over-eating, drinking and smoking too much, late hours, loss of sleep, over-work, over-exertion, or over indulgence of some kind. This upsets our normal alkaline balance—excess acid accumulates in our system—and then we suffer with Indigestion, Sour Stomach, Gastric Pains, Headaches, Colds. Unless this condition is cor rected—unless the excess acid is neu tralized, our suffering from these aihnents will increase and serious and dangerous illness is likely to follow. Now science has developed a re markable alkaline tablet that quickly corrects this excess acid condition. It -.s a new and better way—a safe, harmr(n>ula: AcUI Salic,lie Acid t Kralna (»%>. Sodium Bl We are aware that Fire Sta tions (most of them in need of re pair) are situated at San Nicolas, Sta. Cruz, Paco, Intramuros, Tanduay, Tondo, San Lazaro and Sta. Mesa. They are NOT ENOUGH. We ask and urge the immediate construction of three new stations, viz.—Sta. Ana, Tondo, and Malate. We are informed that the expenses of the three (3) new fire engine stations would be:— Buildings, lots, fire apparatus and equipment ............ P175,965.00 Dormitory equip ment .................... 1,477.00 Fire alarm system . 28,042.00 Personnel ................ 42,520.00 Contingent expenses 10,878.00 Acquisition of fixed assets ........:.......... 750.00 Total .................... P259,622.00 We are also aware that two (2) new Fire Engines from the La France Company, of New York, costing (both) P43,000.00, have re cently been acquired. This is a mere step in the right direction. We repeat that in view of present conditions and a conwidening of city limits, it is not sufficient. There should be no piecemeal about restoration to capacity. It will be folly to stop a plug here or there, (Continued on page 40) less way to relieve the pain and dis comfort of ailments caused by Excess Acid, and at the same time help restore the normal alkaline balance in the system. This new product is Alka-Seltzer It is one of the most remarkable prep arations ever developed. You drop an Alka-Seltzer tablet in a glass of water and it makes a sparkling, alkaline drink that neutralizes the excess acid and gives almost instant relief from the pain. It is a DOUBLE-ACTION remedy. It relieves the pain and also corrects the cause of the trouble — EXCESS ACIDITY. Alka-Seltzer is pleasant-tasting, abso lutely harmless, safe for children as well as adults. It is not a laxative, so can be taken at any time. At all Druggists in two con venient sizes. Try it today. rbonale 31 grain * (64%). Citric Acid 21 gialu (31%). • BEWARE OF SUBSTITUTES! There is only one Tangec, don’t let anyone switch yon. Alwaysask for tancei: NATURAL. If you prefer more color for evening wear, ask for Tangec Theatrical. Alaiiil'i, Noreinbcr, 1937 WOMAN’S f'Rot&E- . jft^NAL^’ 19 Women Abroad The people must work, must live, and it must not cost too much. In 193$ she came to Washing ton to find that she had to think up ideas to keep thousands of women at work on projects that wouldn’t cost much and that would (Continued on page 35) THANKSGIVING Day would not be a national American holiday, celebrated not only by the Amer icans in every state of the union but even by those who are outside of the United States, if it was not for a woman, Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale. For thirty years this indefatiga ble woman wrote to different pres idents, the governors of states and territories, and to men and women in public life, urging them to con sider the value of a national Thanks giving Day, to be proclaimed yearly as a holiday by the government. The first proclamation for a day of thanks was made by General Washington in 1789. After this, no special date was set aside for such a demonstration of gratitude to God for His mercies. Each year, at va riable dates, it was the habit of the people to meet and keep a Day of Thanks. Certain localities observ ed the custom, regularly, especially in the New England states, but all over the South and West, it was sometimes celebrated, sometimes not. Tn any event the dates varied great ly, and there was no national cele bration of any kind. Sarah Hale had an idea that a national holiday would unify the country and draw it together in common bonds of prayer and grati tude. The deepest instincts of pat riotism stirred Mrs. Hale to her thirty years’ endeavor. But for her, Thanksgiving would have disap peared, or become merely a sectional holiday indulged in by a few new England states. Tn 1863, Abraham Lincoln, acced ing to Mrs. Hale’s earnest solicita tions, issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation, and in the adminis trations following the custom has never dropped. Who was this Sarah Hale? She has other distinctions besides being responsible for making Thanks giving Day an American national holiday. She was one of the pion eer American school teachers. She taught school for seven years, then married David Hale at the age of twenty-five and went to live with him at Newport. New Hampshire. Four children were born to the Hales, and two weeks before the fifth child was to arrive in this world. Mr. llale died, leaving his wife destitute—with five children to cipport and educate. The word “destitute’’ had the same spelling way back in 18 * 26 that it has now, but it had not the same application and meaning it has today. Destitute in those days was destitute. Sarah ITale had no thing, not even prospects. Women did practically no public work in those days. She tried millinery and failed. She wrote a book of poems which was published and a book called “Northwood” which was also published. This book is said to be the first American novel by a wom an and had something of the atmos phere of “Wutherine Heights” by Charlotte Bronte. But the most known work of Mrs. Hale is the nursery rhyme, Mary Had A Little Lamb, which every school child Knows by heart. • In January 1828, Mrs. Hale was made the editor of the first real woman’s magazine ever published in the United States. It was called “The American Lady's Magazine”. In 1837, Louis 0. Goday, who had started a magazine of his own, tried to lure Mrs. Hale from her job, to be editor of his publica tion, but she would have none of him, so he bought the American Lady’s Magazine and consolidated it with Godey’s Lady’s Book, there by automatically falling heir to Sarah Hale. She was editor of this publication for fifty years and blazed more than one trail down which American women of today know little about. AT a time when most Filipino women would think themselves, old, Mrs. Ellen Woodward, Wash ington, D. C., is doing a man’s job —taking care of 58-">,000 people on the relief rolls. 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' ^'.JOURNAL .extraordinary about him, gets elected by popular sentiment which he has neither sought nor asked for. A love affair sending him abroad, he be comes entangled in a fortun ate accident involving the King of England, through whom he is able to perform a notable service for his country. Through the mira culous channels of American politics he is nominated for President while still away, and in such a manner that he can’t refuse the honor. And without raising a hand —in fact, by just being plain Dan — he is elected President. The satire may not apply solely to American politics. * * For entertaining reading, P. G. Wodehouse is generally accepted as a past member. His Mr. Mulliner Speaking is probably not as readable ma terial as his other works (a few of which have been filmed into hilarious come dies), but it has the distinc tive Wodehouse characteris tics of unexpected situations. * Manila, November, 1937 effective denouement, and very droll descriptions of per sonages and settings. Such picturesque language occur? in many instances as this which describes the scene of Archibald’s first meeting with the lady of his dreams. “Like Archibald, Dante loved at first sight: and the poet’s age at the time was, we are told, nine—which was almost exactly the mental age of Archibald Mulliner when he first set eyeglass on Amelia Cammarleigh.” Distinctly British in tone, the stories are also, in a distortedly fun ny way, a cross-section of British life, and customs, and manners. The fascination of Wodehouse’s humour is in his use of the unlooked-for both in the remarks of his charac ters as well as in his own. Like O’Henry he pokes fun in a kindly manner, chuck ling, as it were at and with the people in his stories, his humour is never cruel and raw like Ring Lardner’s. One can imagine him gleefully en joying the antics of his per sonages the while he steers them through their funny roles. Yet it is not slapstick comedy that he presents — just how he stays above that low level of fun-making, and yet creates the deliciously lu dicrous situations that he does, is a secret, we who like him so much, would give our eye-teeth to know. —Pia Mancia. “If you have no convic tions on party platforms and candidates, get busy. 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SECTION MOVIE CHIT CHAT INTERNATIONAL marriages in Hollywood in clude the following: Lily Damita (French) and Errol Flynn (Irish) ; Dolores del Rio (Mexican) and Cedric Gibbons (Irish) ; Grace Moore (American) a n d Valentin Parrera (Spanish) ; Louise Rainer (Viennese) and Clifrothy Lamour (first seen in THE JUNGLE PRINCESS, then in THE LAST TRAIN FROM MADRID and SWING HIGH, SWING LOW), is con sidered now Hollywood’s new est heart-throb. He is said to combine the charms of Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power. Among the female newcom ers to the screen, Sigrid GuWOMAN’S' / Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in “Way Our West” rie from Norway (soon to appear in THE ADVENTU RES OF MARCO POLO with no less a personage than Gary Cooper) is the sensation. Judging from her pictures, we have come to the conclusion that she looks like Frances Farmer (another newcomer who is making sensational progress) and Merle Oberon. The juveniles have their candidates, too, in the person of twelve-year-old Tommy Kelly, the “find” who will play Mark Twain’s immortal Tom Sawyer on the screen. “I told you so,” Hollywood is saying about the marriage of Martha Rave (the female rival of Joe E. Brown in the biggest mouth contest) and Buddy Westmore (youngest (Continued on page 3S) ford Odets (American) ; Pat Paterson (English) and Char les Boyer (French) ; Clau dette Colbert (French) and Dr. Joel Pressman (Ameri can) ; Lupe Velez (Mexican) and Johnny Weismuller (American), just to mention the most prominent. International romances: Margo (Mexican) and Fran cis Lederer (Czechoslova kian) ; Elissa Landi (Aus trian) a n d Nino Martini (Italian) ; Miriam Hopkins (American) and Anatol Lit vak (Russian) ; Sonja Heine (Norway) and Tyrone Power (American) ; Merle Oberon (Tasmanian) and David Ni,ven (English), also to men tion only a few7. 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Royal Cook Book d.Zdrcys 22 HEADQUARTERS NOTES MONG the many inter esting visitors that we had at the Federation are two young lady students of the Santo Tomas Univer sity, Miss Felicitas Veloso and Miss Corazon Ungson. Ener getic, and intensely interested in the JOURNAL, they came to make practical research whose findings they intend to incorporate in a term paper for their Journalism class. * * * What Causes Epilepsy? New York, N. Y. A booklet con taining the opinions of famous doc tors on the subject “CAN EPI LEPSY BE CURED?” has met with great interest throughout the country. Doctors from all over flic world have contributed to this in teresting discussion, which contains a great deal of information and advice on the subject. Any reader will receive a free copy by writing to Renesol Corporation. P. O. Box 1.345, Manila, Dept. C 1S1. /I WANT MY LITTLE GIRlA FORMULA: Plienyl-ethyl-innlonilurca ................... 1 gr. Sodium Bicnrbonnte .......................... *4 gr. 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It is also gratifying to re port that Headquarters receiv ed wonderful response from the clubwomen regarding the selling of Sweepstakes tickets. In connection with nursery classes, we should like to tell you of the visitors we had coming for observation and training. The Cavinti Wom an’s Club, for example, whose active president is Mrs. Mer cedes F. Villanueva, sent Miss Isabel Olivares to learn ways and methods of handling nurs ery classes. After her period of training she will be assign ed to teach the class which has just been opened. 5j: From San Jose, Mindoro, we had Mrs. Hila ria Legaspi Fiel, who plans a nursery class in her town. She observ ed our classes and listened to Mrs. Gamboa’s lecture. We need all the help that we can get in our club pro jects and social work. There fore we are more than pleas ed to report that we have a new “recruit”. Miss Vivencia Villapando has been ap pointed Field Worker for Batangas and Tayabas. Miss Vi llapando is a many-sided per son, being a registered phar macist, a lawyer (she just took her bar examinations two months ago), and an Educa tion student to boot. These preparations will stand her in good stead in her new work. Provincial Notes THE first note we want to sound in our gossipy col umn this month is one of com. Manila, November, 1937 mending the interest that the women are showing in the coming elections. Letter after letter has come to us asking for information and advice: women whose candidacy has been launched want to know how best to act, and women who are interested in politics ask us in what way they can serve to insure fairness and justice in the elections. All this interest is a good, healthy sign. Our women are not going to be passive voters; they are going to vote for their candidates because they feel these candidates deserve their votes. Going back to the subject of the active concern which our women are showing, we have, for instance, the letter of Mrs. Hermogena G. Opi nion, President of the ParentTeacher Association of Palapag, Samar, asking for infor mation regarding the require ments for voting; Miss An drea F. Fadrilan of Quiapo. D-M-C REGISTERED TRAOE MARK.. (LUUUHUiii^iBWWt pearl cotton for embroidery & crochet the pioneer a most satisfactory very brilliant twisted cotton thread Jor general embroidery and crochet. Easy to work. Supplied in 5 sices and in an extensive range of fine shades. A D-M C ball or skein oj peart cotton ensures complete satisfaction ..... high quality fast coloursr . ... can be procured from at! art needlework stores........................... 23 Manila, November, 1937 News Manila, wanted the matter of the appointment of poll-clerks and inspectors to be made clear to her; Mrs. Soledad Espejo-Samonte, Principal Teacher of La Castellana, Oc cidental Negros, asked for ad vice regarding the preferabi lity of presenting her candi dacy as mayor to continuing in her present job (optioning later in a subsequent letter to stay on as a principal teach er) ; from Valderrama, Anti que, Miss Luz Garcia reports her appointment as substitute inspector in her precinct; Mrs. Estrella de Moreno of Looc, Romblon, writes about her work in encouraging the qual ified women to vote in the coming elections; Mrs Democrita B. Bongosia, President of the Panglao Woman’s Club, Bohol, is doing likewise in her locality; Mrs. Angela B. Roja, President of Bugallon Wom an’s Club, has launched her candidacy as Municipal Coun cillor for Bugallon, and has laid out a very commendable and constructive platform; from Sta. Cruz, Ilocos Sur, WOMAN'S HOMa STOUR^TAL. Mrs. Fehza V. Galvan re- ness of one’s civic duties, we quests to be informed regard ing the sort of active partici pation the women can take in the elections; Mrs. Manuela R. Vilda wanted to know if the fact that her husband is a municipal teacher should hinder her in taking part in the political campaigning; Mrs. Consuelo V. Arellano of Camiling, Tarlac, reports the unwillingness of some women to pay the peseta for an affi davit documentary stamp, and her work in persuading them to weigh the paltriness of the value of the peseta to the great good that their vote can do. For high-minded consciousParticipants in the Baby Contest held in connection with the cele bration of Child Health Day in Mambajao, Oriental Misamis. hav^ to take off our hats to Mis. Narcisa Alparce. Hav ing lost her citizenship when she married her husband, she has, nevertheless, never ceas ed to work for the advance ment of the Filipino woman. Attacked by her opponents on the ground that she was not a Filipino citizen, she asked them: “Why could I not help in pushing through what I be lieve is advantageous for the Filipino woman, when every drop of my blood is Filipino?” Her only regret, she says, is that she cannot vote. ❖ * * While we are on the sub ject of elections and voting, we should like to mention the warm encouragement that the women have received from Mr. E. C. Magsusi, Alcalde Municipal of Pontevedra, Oc cidental Negros, who in wellworded resolutions sent to Mrs. Pilar H. Lim, voiced the opinion of the Municipal Council of Pontevedra regard(Confinned on pane 36) FuKMlJl.A:—Boric acid, 12.6 grams; Potas sium Bicarbonate, 5.78 grams; Potassium Bo rate, 2.21 grains; Berberine Hydrochloride, 0.28 grains; Hydrastine Hydrochloride, 0.001 grams; Glycerine, 3.3 grams; Merthiolate (Sodium Ethyl Mercuri Thiosalicylate) 0.01 grnm; Steri lized Water to 1000 Milliliters. (Made in ALL ALONE, on a night made for love! LATER-THANKS TO PALMOtIVE-lOVEI KEEP THAT SCHOOLGIRL COMPLEXION Does your complexion show even a hint of dryness, dullness, coarse-texture? Then watch out, famous beauty experts warn. They are symptoms of a condition which adds years to your appearance . . . heart-breaking "middle-age” skin! Use Palmolive regularly, these ex perts advise. For Palmolive, the soap 457 el made with Olive Oil, does more than Give Your Own Skin These Palmolive Beauty Treatments just cleanse! Its gentle protective lather keeps your complexion soft, smooth and young! Try This Beauty Treatment Massage the creamy lather of Palmolive Soap into your pores. Let it penetrate the pores, cleansing them thoroughly. Rinse. Dry gently. See how much softer, more radiant, your skin is! Start now. Below is a fine example of the so-called “corselette” dress. The wide belt in a contrasting color is sewed to the dress. The front blouse is gathered at the beltline, thus giv ing fulness to the bust and accent ing the slender waist. This dress may be made of velvet or thick crepe. The skirt has four sections and is over a meter in width at the bottom. This is an example of a shirred dress. The front of the blouse is shirred, vertically, in the center to a narrow band that forms the neck line. For formal afternoon wear, make this dress out of satin, crepe or transparent velvet, in black, of course, and wear two rhinestone clips at the neck, as shown. The flaring skirt has six sections. BLACK is the most fashions l> any color, except white (if this ca with it, but preferably green, ye wear, definitely gold or silver, as VELVET is being used abroi, for streetwear. Black velvet /o| usually trimmed with gold or sill SHIRRIXGS arc back and us^ but the most in rogue is vertically, bodice, as shown in one of the frac ers are shirred, sleeves are shirred, insertions are also used as tri mm SKIRTS are short, and may < row (for pencil silhuette) or flar over a meter in width). Both ir The CORSELETTE (Less or. dress of the most famous brideThe term "corselette” may be ap/ a smooth, fitted section, inserted ing from the'bustline to the beltlii SELDOM SU TUNITY AS THE LARGI of e The j &ored plain, or fr You’ll liow j are! Siz' White i AMILTOS1 Manila, November, 1937. 'W^fAN’S HOftfc ‘ JAJURnM V in gashes I'c color. For daytime wear I St be called a color) is used How or red. For evening trimming or accessories. '.d. even for tailored frocks j dressy afternoon frocks, wr lame or brocade. P in every conceivable way, ■ in the center of the front ks on these pages. Shouldskirts are shirred. Shirred ings. either be straight and nared (sometimes reaching to idths are right. ■ginated from the wedding -the Duchess of Windsor, died to any frock that has at the diaphragm, extendic. H OPPORPHIS FOR f WOMAN IKSKIN SUITS ccellent quality, .ickets have fitted backs. Skirts are with either side □nt pleats. 9 be surprised at lenderizing, these O is 38 to 44 inly—P42.5O Another example of the corselette dress. The corseted effect is achieved by the pointed insertion at the diaphragm. Note that the shoulders of the blouse are shirred to give fulness to the top and thus accenting the slenderness of the waistline. Note also the slender skirt, only four-piece, and the large decorative hooks. Laces may be used instead of hooks. White or light-colored prints on black or dark-colored backgrounds are smarter than ever. The dress below is made from such a material. Note the blouse top gathered to the shoulder yoke and the large pock ets on the skirt, instead of on the blouse. The short, narrow skirt gives that “pencil” silhuette also important this season. 26 }?OMAN‘s.y'fibME .JOUft^I?. / Let’s Have Just . Manila, November, 1937 Cooking, SOUP SOUP is usually served as a prelude to a meal, but when other ingredients, such as meat, fish, or vegetables, are added to it, it becomes a meal in itself — satisfying and nutritious. Here is a hint to the busy housewife who wants to save energy, time and money. Thick soup may be served with the sympathetic crack ers or toasted bread. If you desire to make the meal more HEINZ Pure Cider Vinegar HEINZ offers you 57 varieties of finest food products, including: Heinz Tomato Ketchup: Heinz Soups; Heinz Cooked Spaghetti: Heinz Oven Baked Beans, and many others. Have You Tried HEINZ Peanut Butter? It’s tasty and nourishing HEINZ nutritious, serve cheese with the crackers or toast. For dessert, choose something that is filling, such as cookies with jam or jelly or saba bananas boiled in syrup or fried and dusted with refined sugar. Here is the recipe for the lusty Onion Soup, so popular among the middle class Frenchmen: ONION SOUP 4 large onions When you add vinegar to that salad you have prepared with such care, be sure you use only the best. There are many grades of vinegar, but only the finest will give just that zest you want— bring out ALL the hidden flavours in each ve getable. HEINZ vinegars are made from fine raw mate rials and then aged for a year or two in great wooden tanks. This extra year or two of ageing —given only to the better grades—makes HEINZ vinegar mild and mellow; gives it that appeal ing fragrance everyone likes so well. Ordinary vinegars are sometimes a trifle cheaper per bot tle but they can never have that fine bouquet and aroma that only ageing gives. You are proud of your salads—of the quality of the fruits and vegetables in them. Poor vinegar will spoil fine flavour and perhaps injure your reputation as a salad maker. Always remember that HEINZ vinegar is good. HEINZ vinegar is inexpensive. Every drop azvakens flavour! 57 Varieties At Your Grocer’s 3 tablespoons butter 6 cups chicken broth Seasonings (1 clove, a few peppercorns, salt) 2 eggs yolks Slice the onions lengthwise into thin pieces then cross wise into shavings. Cook gent ly in the butter for 15 minutes or until sof't and golden brown. Stir in the chicken broth (made by boiling chick en feet, head, and gizzards) rurb EOOP PRODUCTS and the seasonings. Simmer the mixture until the onions are very soft. Remove the peppercorns and clove. Beat the egg yolks and pour this into the sopera. Add the soup slowly to the eggs, stirring all the time. If Parmesan cheese is available, beat it, finely grated, with the egg. POTATO SOUP 1 large onion A slice of bacon 6 boiled potatoes, mashed 1 tablespoon of butter Warm milk (evaporated) Seasonings (salt, pepper and cayenne) 1 teaspoon Worcester shire sauce Chop the onion until fine. Lay the slice o’f bacon in a large frying pan and when it begins to brown, add the chop ped onion. Remove the bacon when done, but allow the onion to simmer in the fat until it is golden brown. Chop the bacon very fine and return to the frying pan. Add the mashed potatoes and the but ter, working them all well. Then slowly add the warm milk (14 cup evaporated milk and 1,4 cup hot water), using enough to make the mixture acquire the consistency of a' puree. Stir constantly until all lumps are smoothed out. Sea son, then simmer for 15 min utes, adding more milk until the desired consistency is reached. Before serving, stir in the Worcestershire sauce. Serve with pilot biscuits. (This recipe will serve 6 per sons generously.) SPANISH FISH CHOWDER 2 strips of bacon % cup canned tomatoes 1 cupful of diced raw po tatoes 1 cupful of shredded raw, white fish 1 green pepper, chopped Manila, November, 1937. . WLAN’S . HOM^- ?JOu£n?£ 27 1 medium-sized onion, chopped Place the ingredients, in the order given, in the top of a large double-boiler. Pour over this mixture 11/4 cups of fish broth (made by boiling the fish head, tail and bones for l/; hour). Bring the soup to a boil directly over the fire, then cook over boiling water for 14 hour. Season, and just before serving, remove the bacon and add 2 cups of hot milk (1 cup evaporated milk and 1 cup of hot water) and Vs cupful of broken crackers. Stil well and serve in bowls. (This recipe will serve si-x persons.) FILIPINO FISH SOUP 1 regular-sized dalag 3 cups of water 2 sections of garlic 1 bunch of wansuy V2 cup of good patis 4 native onions 4 soda crackers Pepper and salt to taste Clean the fish and boil in the water. Remove from the broth and separate its meat from the bones. Set aside. Saute the onion, and when brown, add the fish meat. Season with patis, then add the onion leaves cut into short pieces, and the fish broth. Allow the mixture to boil, then remove from the fire and stir in the crackers, broken into pieces, onions sliced cross wise thinly, and chopped zvansuy leaves. (By Mrs. P. Z. Mascunana.) BORSCHT (A famous Russian soup) 1 bunch of beets 1 cup tomatoes, fresh or canned 4 cups water For Wholesome, Delicious Meals For sale at all Grocers * SALES AGENTS* GETZ BROS.&CO. manila 1 small onion % pound breast of beef ’ 1 tablespoon lemon juice % cup sugar »/2 teaspoon salt 4 eggs Pare the beets and cut them into long strips. Strain the tomatoes over the beets, not letting any seeds through. Add the water. Put in the onion and meat, cut into small pieces. Simmer for 30 min utes. Add lemon juice, sugar and salt. Boil for one hour more. Beat the eggs with a pinch of salt and add to the soup, a little at a time and stirring constantly to prevent the eggs from curdling. Serve at once. CRABMEAT SOUP Cook about 6 crabs and when done, remove the meat from the legs and shells. Set aside. Boil the legs and the sheels in 3 cups of water. Fry finely sliced onion, then add the crabmeat and fat. Sprinkle about 1,4 cup flour over his mixture, stirring it all the time. Season with patis and pepper. Allow the mix ture to brown over low fire, stirring always. Add slowly the strained water in which the shells and the pounded legs have been boiled. When the mixture boils, add 2 cups of sotanghtcn, previously soak ed in water and cut into short lengths. Serve with finely chopped native onion. BEEF STEW 1 Yz pounds of lean beef 1 onion, chopped fine 1 cup diced raw potatoes 1 cup of diced cooked car rots 1 small can of sweet peas 1 small can of tomato sauce C?^ ’•‘the1 meat into small piecA. Brown in a little fat, then add the onion, the pota toes, about 4 cups of water and salt to taste. Bring to the boiling point and then cook some more until the meat is tender and the potatoes are done. Add the carrots and the peas and the tomato sauce. Thicken with a little flour, mixed with cold water, if de sired. Cook over a low heat until ready to serve. MINNESOTA BEAN POT Yz pound kidney beans or habichuelas 1 medium sized onion, sliced 1/8 pound of diced fat pork Yz pound of ground round steak 6 small red peppers 4 cups of canned tomatoes or fresh ones 3 teaspoons of salt Safeguard Your Home That innocent-looking broom may spread harmful germs. Do more than sweep. Disinfect with "Lysol”. See that it is used in the cleaning water. So much depends upon making your home hygienically clean, by using Lysol. Especially important is the fight against germs in homes with growing children and babies. Fortunately, it is easy and economical to surround your loved ones with wholesome cleanliness—by using "Lysol”. It pro vides an effective germicide that disinfects as it cleans. With this widely approved disinfectant you can keep your home hospital-clean. Have stair-rails, door knobs, toys, drainboards, bathroom, telephone mouthpiece, furniture, walls and floor washed with a solution of "Lysol”. Use it in laundering towels, handkerchiefs, bed linens,underclothes. Start using"Lysol” today. Rcmem ber its name of two syllables: Ly-sol. Wash the beans and soak them overnight in plenty of water. In the morning, cook the onion and the pork fat until slightly browned, then add the beef, peppers, toma toes (cut into pieces), salt, and drained ’ beans. Add 4 cups of water and bring to the boiling point slowly, then cook over a low flame until the beans are tender (about two hours). Remove the pep pers before serving. This dish improves with re heating. Re-heat over a pan of water. A Woman’s Home Journal subscription will make a much appreciated Christ mas gift—a gift which will be a reminder of you every month in the com ing year. 28 .JOVIAL. . MahUa, November, 1937 Guide To Charm There's Always Something To Be. Thankful For . • • FATHER used to say whenever one of our visiting relatives would tease him that his daughters were ugly that there was really no ugly woman in the world, and would add the following Spanish saying: no hay guapa sin tacha; no hay fea sin gratia. (There’s no beauty without blemish; no ugly without charm). This gave us a great deal of comfort, being no beauty at all. Look around you and ana lyse the face of every woman you see and you will find the Spanish saying very true. If, like ourself, you consider your face as hopeless, look at yourself in the mirror and you will find at least one re deeming feature. It may be your eyes, your mouth, your chin, your nose, or your com plexion. You may go even further and find some charm in your hair, in your hands, in your legs and feet. There is, there must be something to be thankful for—and you must play it up, dramatize it, call attention to it. One girl we know has thick, long hair, her only beauty. Her mother, more farsighted than she is, refused to have it cut and waved. Now this girl is proud of her hair and can boast that she is one of the very few whose hair reaches the waist. She pam pers her hair, brushing it re ligiously every night, sham pooing it frequently and care fully, coaxing the waves with combs and curlers. She braids it and winds the braid around her head like a coro net. Another girl we know has a widow’s peak, so she combs her hair straight from her forehead instead of parted. Still another girl wears her •■.-•• r J hair like this, not parted, be cause she has a nice forehead —sort of intellectual loking. Perhaps you have nice eye brows. Bring out all their beauty by pulling the hair underneath so that they will become more defined. Thin eyebrows are no longer in fashion, so if yours are thick but nicely arched, exploit them. Brush them with pe trolatum in the evening and after you have applied your powder. Gleaming White Teeth and an Attractive Smile This Antiseptic Dental Cream Makes Dull, Stained Teeth Attractive KOLYNOS is a scientific formula originated by a famous dentist. It gives a thorough germicidal cleansing to teeth and gums killing millions of germs that cause stain and decay. Kolynos is different be cause it contains ingredi ents not found in ordinary toothpastes. It acts j ust like Accept no substitute — the only genuine Kolynos is packed in the yellow tube and carton. » Do you possess that pair of eyes that are either sad or sort of laughing all the time? And with long, thick eyelashes to boot? My dear, you are the envy of all wom enfolk who are not blessed with such kind of eyes. Take good care of those eyes. Keep them sparkling by using eye lotion often. Curl these eye lashes if they are not curled. There are inexpensive eye lash-curlers on the market. Rub oil or cocoa butter on your eyelashes after you have applied powder on your face. Or brush them upward with the eyebrow brush. And—do learn how to apply eye make up, to emphasize those eyes. If you have nice teeth and fine lips, concentrate your make-up around them. And smile often in order to show off these lovely teeth. A beaua jeweler’s polish on a piece of tarnished silver quickly removing unsightly discol oration from the teeth. Remember — Kolynos lasts twice as long as ordl nary toothpastes because you use only half as much. It is so concentrated a halfinch on a dry brush is enough. Try Kolynos today. tiful mouth may be spoiled by constant pouting and pur sing of the lips so beware of developing these habits. We had a classmate who was not good-looking at all, but she had beautiful hands— well-formed and with taper ing fingers, but these hands looked ugly at first glance because they were not wellkept. Somebody had the idea, before a class party, of giv ing her a manicure. She was dumb-founded by the change in her hands. From that time on, she devoted one day a week to giving them a complete manicure and she used a hand lotion every night. Bright nail po lish called attention to them. Our instructor in English who had studied dramatics noticed this girl’s hands, and do you know what this ins tructor did? She taught this girl how to use her hands in gestures. Among the lessons, we remember these: place your hands or one of them on the back of the chair, as if to support yourself, when you are standing (do not grip the back of the chair) ; place your hands, one on top of the other, on your lap when you are seated; toy with your glass or with your fork when you are at a dinner table. Of ocurse all these should be done as if you were uncons cious of them and are not trying to show off your hands. Do you have nice legs (even if you say so your-' self) ? Then cheer up! Short skirts are here again and you have plenty of opportu nity to show them off. In vest in sheer stockings and in good shoes that will flat ter your lower extremeties. Many a beautiful body is spoiled by bad posture and by ill-fitting clothes. Stand before a full-length mirror clothed only in your under wear (better still in a bath ing suit) and look at your body from different angles. A potruding stomach or sway back is oftentimes re medied by simply straight ening up. Choose the cut of your dresses to flatter your body if it is well-formed. Manila, November. 1987 wd&A-xVS, HOME* ‘JOUBnXl 29 'Manila, November, 193? 30 Household Hints Christmas WOMAN’S’ ’ riQME /journal ) ' Is Only A Month Away NOW is the time to check up on your household furnishings and the stock in your pantry or food cabinet and find out what things you need to buy in order to meet properly the demands of celebrating the approaching holidays. Too often holidays are no holidays to the housewife; they only mean more work for her. The trouble is she How the children like them! LET boys and girls spend their centavos for the small packets of Sun-Maid Seedless Raisins. You can be sure they are getting full value in delightful, healthful sun-dried fruit. Much better than ordinary confections, Sun-Maid Raisins are rich in nourishment as well as fine flavor. Use Sun-Maid Raisins in cakes and cookies—to make delicious desserts and puddings. They improve the taste of ordinary foods — make home cooking even more tasty. Look for the red Sun-Maid package when you buy raisins. You can be sure of Sun-Maid quality. Sun-Maid Seedless Raisins Sold by all dealers—in small packets for eating— in the large size 15-oz. pkg. for cooking. Do Your Shopping, leaves everything to the last minute, thus piling work on herself, work that could have been done many weeks before. There is, for instance, the business of getting the house ready for the holidays. The house may be cleaned and ti died, and decorations pre pared, days, even weeks, in advance. If new curtains and cushion covers are needed, if the chairs have to be painted, Prepare Gifts, Early now is the time to do them. There are paints on the mar ket that are easy to apply. Visit the dealers in your town and get information. Perhaps you need new place plates, more drinking glasses, one or two trays, a new pot or saucepan, a knife for slicing ham, cheese and bread. Get them now so that the last few days before Christmas may be devoted solely to the preparation of foods. ¥ ¥ PERHAPS you are planning to economize on your Christmas presents by makingsome of them yourself. This is not a bad idea; in fact, it is highly commendable, not only for the sake of your purse, but also because you introduce a personal touch into your gifts. For lady friends, we suggest hostess gowns. Do not be impressed or frightened by the name. These are merely kimonos made like gowns or glorified house-dresses. Suppose we call them house-coats, because they are wrap-around or open at the front, from neck to hem. These gowns may be made of printed percale or pique, the larger and bright er the prints the better. If you do not know how to cut them, get a pattern from Aguina1do’s (Butterick), Goldenberg (Simplicity) (these are the lest expensive and the easiest to follow), or Burt’s Maga zine Store (Pictorial). Or, give bed jackets. These may be made of more expen sive materials, like silk crepe or satin, but each requires only at the most two yards or meters of material. You can make them also of printed flannel, more welcome on cold mornings. For children, there are amusing handkerchiefs that need only to be hemmed. Or, you may give them coats, again cut from a pattern bought from any of the three stores we have mentioned. Foods are very acceptable gifts, especially when the prospective recipients know that you make them excep tionally well. Jams and jel lies, hard or soft candy, pick les and relishes, and conserve? are easy to make, and keep indefinitely. To make them doubly welcome, place them in attractive jars, tied with gay cellophane ribbons. .Manila, November, 1937 ’ WAR AND PEACE (Continued from page 16) and starvation—to them war is real enough now. And they have brought back the fear and horror of what they had heard and witnessed. In France, two years ago, editorials after editorials ap peared in Paris papers de ploring the going down of the birth-rate. Italy was at the same time offering prizes and bonuses for marrying couples and newly-born babies. A French mother, who had seen the horrors of the last war which took its toll off her in the form of a husband and a lung-gassed son, said: “The Frenchwoman is wise in not producing children. She knows that if she has sons, they will not be hers for long. The next war will get them.” She had been spared her son, but it was not the same hap py, healthy, person who came back to her after the armistice was signed. His racking cough tortured her with its hopeless, metallic sound; and, “every night we would be awakened by fierce cries; my son would be living again in his dreams the terrible scenes of the battles he had taken part in. His life is living hell.” Such women as this one could tell you why there should be no wars. Armistice Day meant something to her. A gassed son was better than no son. Three or four years ago two students from a University in America were expelled for re fusing to take the military training required in school. “We do not believe in war,” was their reason. Quixotic? In a way. Yet their youthful sincerity was laudable and the game way they took their expulsion, very praiseworthy. The present state of things is a long cry from the peace that the armistice of 1918 be tokened. So that when, in so lemn mockery, we observe that moment of silence for the significance of November 11 in men’s lives, it will be, for most of us, a moment of pray er too—that the scourge of war might never visit our peaceful land. The officers and. a feu- members of the Anda (Cebu) Woman’s Club with town officials. It has become a recognized fact during recent years that sports alone will not sufficiently develop bodily health and vigour, unless backed by thorough physical hy giene and a careful training of the whole system to attain efficiency and elasticity. For this reason the daily toilet is of decidedly greater importance than it appears likely at first, and the quality of the toiletries used may make or mar the perfection The experienced sports-lover always relies with confidence on the invigor ating properties of "4711" Genuine Eau de Cologne. Applied generously to the hands and arms, the nape of the neck, the forehead, liberally added to the bath water and handbasin, ’4711" refreshes instantly and stimulates bodily vigour. Keeping fresh and alert! Genuine i Eau tie Cologne tiruui SPORTS AND HEALTH of a cultivated appearance. Toiletries which can be implicit ly trusted are those manufactured by the House of “4711”, maker of the world-famous ‘"4711” Eau de Cologne. There is no more sti mulating “pick-up” in bath or hand basin than this delightful freshener. If you want to look cool and dainty in the hot weather, dab now and then a few drops of “4711” Eau de Cologne on forehead, wrists and temples or behind the ears. It will work wonders! As a result of over-powdering, enlarged pores sometimes develop on and around the nose. In this case try dabbing some diluted “4711” Eau de Cologne on your face after application of a good Cold Cream. It will act as a re liable astringent. Be careful, how ever, that the Cold Cream massage is not too energetic, or unsightly lines might develop. 32 A NUMBER of stores are having pre-holi day sales. There is, for instance, the American Hardware which is giving a discount on all its goods but especially on kitchen equipment. Much of the hou cwife’s activities during the ap proaching holidays will take place in the kitchen and in the dining room. It is a wise housewife who arms herself with all sorts of gadgets that will make her work of preparing foods easier. She should have, among other things, various kinds of knives, one for every chore. There should be a butcher knife for cutting and chop SHE USES ODO-RO-NO AND KNOWS SHE'S SAFE! She knows the importance of keeping her person fresh and dainty. She’s through with or dinary deodorants. Odorono never fails her. In common with millions of other women — she recommends Odorono as unfailingly effective,safe, and dependable. use, “InODO-RO'NO is made in two strengths: “Regular” for normal ODO-RO-NO Sircer & N<>. Muller Phipps (Manila), Ltd , Dept. 7\v c National City Bank BUr., Man.la ' 1 enclose ICc tor the Odorono Sample Kit. : woman’I^home' .^’r^al ’ SHOPPING GUIDE phig mea:.;. a serrated knife for slicing ham, cheese, bread, etc., small stainless knives for paring fruits. The American Hardware is displaying all sorts of knives now and is selling them with consider able discounts to attract the housewives. If you have been making ti-im (steamed chicken) in an improvised double-boiler, use the coming of the holi days as an excuse for getting —a real one. A double-boiler ' is a very serviceable utensil, for many kinds of steamed foods may be cooked in it. If you can afford it, buy a roaster. Contrary to its name, a roaster is not only for roasting; it can also bake, broil, cook a complete meal for two (main dish, dessert, vegetables) if it is provided with three compartments as many roasters are nowadays, and keep foods hot for a long time. Perhaps you have a range, which consumes too much gas or electricity so that when you feel like bak ing a cake you do not because one cake is not worth all the expense for fuel. The roaster will solve this problem. If you are getting new cur tains, you must also get the accessories that go with them — rods, tie-backs, val ances. Aguinaldo’s has the most complete department of interior decoration, and there is a decorator in charge who will give you suggestions. Plaids have invaded the towel kingdom. Martex, Can non and Dundee, three wellknown towel manufacturing houses, have put out plaid towels that are reasonably priced. The small towels ma be bought at as low as fifty centavos a piece and are available in various colors. If you are planning a coat or a jacket for these in creasingly cold mornings or evenings, we suggest lanilla (a combination of wool and cotton threads). This ma terial is thin but warm enough. The dry-goods store ; on the Escolta have it, in different colors, dark and pastel. Beechnut (manufacturers of chewing gums and can dies) have put out biscuits in different kinds. These come in carboard boxes lined with oiled paper. There are soda crackers/ graham bis cuits, especial crackers for canapes. These biscuits have only recently appeared in lo cal groceries but we under stand that they are selling faster than other brands. The reason, perhaps, is this: they are available in small boxes and at reasonable pri ces. The latest in perfumes are those put out by Worth (fam ous house of fashion in Paris). The most intriguing bottle we have seen is a blue round Manila, November, io.;; one with a long, slender neck. It is sprinkled all over with silver stars; at the top of the stopper is a crescent moon. You have guessed it — the name of the perfume is Nuit. Another perfume is called Sans Adieu, because it is sup posed to last long, if not for ever. And speaking of perfumes, we are reminded of the smart idea of Botica Boie of feat uring a perfume each month, calling it “the perfume of the month.” This solves many a gift problem. For instance, your friend's birthday comes in November and you do not know what to give her or him. Why not give Novem ber’s perfume? Handbags! Handbags! They are featured in almost every store — on the Escolta, on Rizal Avenue, even on Rosa rio Street. The most popular are the ones made of some inexpensive materials that make them inexpensive in price. But they are beauti fully styled and do not look cheap at all. ' 'Manila, November, 1937 • THE FIVE GREATEST (Continued from paye !>) and with joy in her heart and sunshine in her face she bore out the serious responsibility of bringing up her eleven chil dren. She did not dodge nor sulk nor passed on to other shoulders the fulfillment of the solemn duty of an ideal mother in accordance with her country’s cherished traditions that are the basis of the en during permanence of the Fi lipino home. Her children were her Crops. They were her Treasures and one among them became a national Treas ure ; while she came to typify the ideal Filipino mother. * * * RS. MARIA JOSEFA GABRIELA, wife ol‘ the famous Ilocano leader, Diego Silang, occupies a distinct place among great Filipino women. She was a woman of great courage and an indomitable will with a ca pacity for active military leadership very unusual among the feeble sex. During the English occupation of Ma nila, her husband led what n. BORhT^b TALCUM to Baby Comfort Baby depends on you to keep him happy. That’s why you should use Mennen Borated Powder after every bath and diaper change. It soothes, cools and helps prevent rashes, irritations and prickly heat. It’s the finest pow der made — and carries with it all the protection of the Mennen name. Compare it with other powders. See for yourself how much finer and softer Mennen is! WcA^g- -HOM^ ;)K)URNAL\ zz •» ‘ * I • proved to be the strongest'and .Ifibugh most widespread revolt that teAorf^e the was ever encountered by the Spaniards in these Islands. The Filipino warriors after repeated successes were about to deal the blow that would annihilate the government troops, when the life of their leader was cut short by the treacherous hand of an assas sin, bribed by the enemy, un der the guise of loyal friendship. This produced a demo ralizing effect among the na tive rebels and soon after, they began to abandon the fighting lines. Noticing this, Dona Maria Josefa de Silang snatched the arms that on many occasions had been wielded by her dead husband, and with the daring and skill that are shown only by born leaders, she immedi ately was able to rally her hus band's men. Then by the ins piring appeal of her person ality she persuaded the na tives of the interior to join her forces in the fight against the abuses of the Spaniards and for the protection of the rights of the inhabitants. she was able to Spaniards for a time, the government and the church aided by loyal natives, by superior number and more effective arms, and with rein forcements which had arrived from all around, were soon Atodetn U/omen Preset KOTEX It is perfectly hygienic, shaped to fit comfortably, and highly absorbent. It’s only natural that women the world over should welcome the new Wondersoft Kotex — a pad with sides cushioned in a film of downy cotton to prevent chafing, a pad that holds its shape and does not twist around, removing all fears of insecurity and embarrassment. Kotex is manufactured under the most perfect sanitary conditions. Its Cellucotton wadding assures marvelous absorbency and protec tion, yet those flat Wondersoft pads fit smoothly and snugly — showing no telltale lines. Ask tor and insist on the genuine Kotex. For sale at all druggists and stores which cater to women. Wondersoft KOTEX A SANITARY NAPKIN MADE FROM CELLUCOTTON (not cotton) r i i i i i i Muller & Phipps (Manila) Ltd. P. O. Box 1476, Manila Name . Cl‘y. . 33 able to drive the native war riors to the mountains. The fleeing natives were pursued and after a long series of skirmishes in the mountain fastnesses, the woman leader was captured together with a (Continued on :>!)) ----------------------------------------( Please send tree booklet for mothers: "Mar- I jorie May's Twelfth Birthday" i i I i BE BEAUTIFULL FOR CHILDREN By Max Factor JOME philosophic scribblers have commented that women make an effort to be beautiful merely to . catch husbands. Others have count ered that the purpose is actually to excite the jealousy of other wom en. Everybody harps on the subject of "stay young and beautiful if you want to be loved”, but any mother can tell you that it’s more thrilling to have a small son or a little daughter tell her that she is beauti ful than to turn all the masculine heads her way, and produce green eyes throughout the entire feminine ranks. It means something to the child ren too—having a mother that they admire. It means that she will have more influence with them—she iadmirable! She is establishing an ideal—putting herself on a pedes tal. The volumes of books that have become so prominent in home where children are being roared, with their countless pages of advice on how to mold the character and physique of a child could well have a chapter added to any of them—“Beauty Hints for Mothers”. Mothers have better beauty clianYOUNG LADIES AND MATRONS ARE IN NEED OF— the lovely mothers who are screen LILY l’ONS cos than those women who have never known the joys and sorrows of motherhood. For proof of this favorites. The most beautiful blonde in Hollywood is a mother—Virginia Bruce. And where will you find another woman admitting to being more than forty who is so exquisite ly lovely as Billie Burke? What is possible in Hollywood is possible anywhere, as far as beauty is concerned. The reason cinema mothers are so lovely is that they have professional beauty advice at their fingertips. Hollywood is the most highly specialized beauty cen ter in the world. One of the first beauty points that Mother should remember is to keep her hands lovely. “Mother Machree” with hw toil worn hands was all right two generations ago, but there is no excuse for such hands now. With hand lotion, cold cream, and manicuring equipment, any woman may keep soft, youth ful hands with a minimum of effort and expense. The hand that rocks the eraddle should be as lovely as the one that remains idle. The earliest memory of beauty that most men cherish is their Mother’s hair when they were very young. They watched her comb it, admired its sheen, and found there many of their most beautiful idealof women. Women should think of this when they are inclined to neglect their hair, and even though a mother’s life is a very busy one she can find time to shampoo every other week with a little touch of brillox. Mothers never neglect the clean liness necessary to the health and well-being of their children. This same cleanliness is the fouundation of their own beauty. Plenty of good soap and water will keep the com plexion clear, and preserve the freshness and fragrance so neces sary to feminine loveliness. One of the pitfalls of mother hood is, to relax completely on those occasions when there is nobody home for dinner but the children. Don’t do it! Those are your opportunities to get close to your children and to leave the impressions of yourself that will last a lifetime. Look your prettiest and dress your loveliest. Mothers can keep their loveliness on through life, by altering their make-up to fit their age. The Mother of a grown son, need be no less attractive in her way than het son’s wife or sweetheart. If are a mother with great for yourself and your lovely—a delicate s\ erhood. you ambitions children, be inbol of mothManila,, November, 1937- . CHINA’S “WOMEN . . . (Continued from page 10) ultimate importance of world ly gods and money, she is a happy cross between her two sisters. Even in looks, this handsome woman falls short of the exquisite loveliness of Madame Sun, without possess ing the rugged homeliness of Madame Kung’s powerful face. Madame Chiang Kai-shek is too much in the foreground at the present moment for anything that we can say here not to be somewhat fatuous repetition. However, to com plete the Saga of the Soong sisters, we must not fail to mention Mei-Ling’s work with her great husband, his turn ing Christian for her sake, their New Life Movement em bodying the highest Christian ideals, her indefatigableness in serving as clever interpret er, dutiful wife, entertainingcompanion, and even effi cient coo\ for him, her loyal co-’.rage at the time of his kidnapping and their unceas ing 1‘ighagainst Communism. The fates have hurled the sisters against one another. But they still see each other —as sisters. These three women typify the highest in Chinese wom anhood. Educated in Western Schools all of them, they have learned to use the best in other lands in the solution of the national problems given them to solve. The Chinese women, perhaps more than any other women in the world, are prepared for just this sort, of blossoming. For having learned, from years of sup pression, to accept, they are best able to make the most of their natural gifts. 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How well she and her staff have done their task is writ ten in the record which includes such projects as these: In Topeka, Kansas, women reclaimed chicken feathers from poultry farms and made pillows for relief families; in Alabama, forty-five women cut stencils and made road signs; in St. Paid and Minneapolis, women made street maps for the blind, marking car-lines with twists of cord, and places with bugle beads sewn in a dot-dash code; in Okla homa, eighteen women beautified a city park; in Nevada, most of the rural schools v.ere cleaned and re paired by women. * * * You may or you may not have heard of an article in a recent Journal of the American Museum of Natural History about Mrs. Madeline R. Cahall, the wife of a doctor, who has scores of birds fly ing free in her apartment, and who lately has discovered three singing mice. Mrs. Cahall’s apartment (New York), it is reported is a bird’s paradise. The atmosphere is very pleasant, the aural impression being that of a bird house at a zoo. Whenever Mrs. Cahall tapped on the floor with a wand she car ried, every bird in the apartment fell silent. The wand is a smooth stick, tapered like a school-teach er’s pointer, about three feet long. It seems that this extraordinary lady got into her extraordinary hobby, when her father, Michael Romanoff, was military governor of Turkestan, from 1906 to 1912. He had a huge aviary. When the present Mrs. Cahall fled after the revolution she was solaced in her journeyings by a green parrot she kept with her. During her ten years of married life in the United States, she gradually built up her present collection, acquiring the specimens from friends, from pet shops, and from the parks, where they are sometimes found injured. They all live together amicably. The Cahall apartment is of seven rooms, and two of these are paint ed blue and lined with perches, cages and parts of trees, and arc set aside as bedrooms for the i FLAVORS BOTICA B O I E S'] '• leathered folk. At six //clock, they are all abed, lights are out, and Mrs. Cahall has tapped her wand on the floor as a signal foi * no more twittering till morning. All the birds have been trained to obey. Not a sound is heard all night. Dr. Cahall usually comes home soon after six. He’s what’s called an industrial physician; he is employed by a large concern to look aftei * their X-ray laboratory. His duties keep him so late that he seldom sees the birds in the evening, and he rarely sees them in the morning, either, being up and gone when they all arise at eight and vacate their bedrooms, so that a maid can get in and clean up. Mrs. Cahall’s birds arc rather prolific, on the whole, and she gives her excess to the Central Park Zoo. She has given seventy during the past year. They think highly of her there as a bird oxLIBBY’S Cooked Corned Beef-the finest lean beef your money can buy-delightful in flavor-rich in nourish ment—is a food value within the means of every family. How tempting these slices of Libby’s Corned Beef look! How good they taste! You never tire of this tasty meat,—welcome it again and again, no matter how often it is served. — Convenient, too-no cooking is necessary. Open the tin and it is ready for the table. It may be heated with rice or vegetables, if you prefer it that way. or made into savory corned beef sandwiches. Choice Lean Beef in a Most Appetizing Form! pe/t ’ask her advice frequently. Captaia Cheyne-Stout, director of the Zoo^-egards her as one of the most remarkable handlei-s of birds, in the whole United States. “To see her take these birds, all loose in the apartment, and send them back into their cages is certainly an extraordinary sight.” he says. The three “singing” mice that Mrs. Cahall discovered have shrill, but not unmusical, voices. She keeps them in a cupboard wher they seem perfectly happy. It is explained that all mice “sing”, but at a range too high to be appre hended by man’s ear. These, that have come down to human audibil ity, have throat ailments of some kind or another. * * * From birds to airplanes is not a far “fly”,—our next topic is the much written-upon, soft-spoken first lady of China. Madame Chiang Kai-Sek, and her military air corps. She is the only woman the world over with such a job as the one she is now handling. “Boss” to eighteen American pilots, ninety Italian engineers and technicians, nearly six hundred Chinese of ficers and her four hundred cadets, a fieet of five hundred fifty planes, and fifteen military flying bases scattered throughout China, Madame Chiang knows her men personally, and commands their respect at frequent interviews in Nanking. “She’s the smartest woman I ever worked with,” said one American pilot after taking orders from her for four years. She takes charge of her men, assigns them their duties, and sees to their salaries as well as to the purchases of new planes, needless to add that the air force is the most incorruptible depart ment in the Chinese government. Her official title is Commanderin-Cbicf of the air corps. f Manila, November, 1937'' 36 CLUB NEWS (Continued from page 23) ing the newly acquired rights of the Filipino woman to vote. The women are grateful, Sr. Alcalde. In some instances, how ever, even the cooperation of several very efficient organi zations bring little or no de sired results. We are think ing now of the specially sad case of a young girl, Irene Paquete, 14, who has disap peared and has not been found, inspite of the coordi nated work of the Office of the President of the Common wealth, the Bureau of Labor, the Secret Service, the City Fiscal’s Office, and the NFWC. Teodora Placente, the illiterate mother of the poor girl says that she has not seen her daughter for a whole year (since the Santiago Employ ment Agency hired her out to the Chinaman, Ang Ten), and fears that she has been the victim of foul play. The rf * WOMANS1' »QMI^nw;KAT: i v NFWC has always' tought , ship training, against white-slav^X traffic and is doing its utmost to help trace the whereabouts of the missing girl to find out if she has been made the prey of in famous traffickers. * * :!= And now to welcome with open arms our new clubs, and the old ones that have reor ganized. Anda Woman’s Club, Bohol, recently formed, has Mrs. Perpetua de Castillo for its president and Miss Teofila D. Olalo for its secretary. The club is already actively persuading the women of the town to exercise their right to vote. Cateel Woman’s Club, Da vao, has the following offi cers whom we congratulate heartily: President, Mrs. Lu cia C. Morales; Vice-Presi dent, Mrs. Valentina de Cer vantes; Secretary, Mrs. Ra mona de Toroba; Treasurer, Mrs. Teresa de Lim. The club is pushing through success fully their various projects, chief among which is citizenPilar Woman’s Club elected the following officers: Pres ident, Mrs. Mercedes A. Pacis; Vice-President, Mrs. Pura Belardo; Secretary, Miss Mansueta Nabaso; Treas urer, Mrs. Caridad Tajanglangit; Sub-Secretary, Miss Hortencia Contreras; Sub Treasurer, Mrs. Lucila Cor tes; Board of Directors, Mrs.^.building its clubhouse, it has Bonifacia Patricio, Mrs. Jo-^L bought a radio, and is activesefa Patricio, Mrs. Salvation * ly launched in constructive Benliro, Mrs. Marina Bunag, Mrs. Encarnacion Mangar, Mrs. Pura Belardo, Mrs. Ro sario Villa, Mrs. Sofia Macahilig, Mrs. Adriana Barrio, Mrs. Luz Cunada, Mrs. Obdulia Villaruz, and Mrs. Purita Estudillo. From Malaybalay, Bukidnon, we received the follow ing report of the list of the officers of their Woman’s Club: President, Mrs. Felipa S. Sanvictores; Vice-Pres ident, Mrs. Anatolia C. Mon tano; Secretary, Mrs. Ade laida Pinto; Treasurer, Mrs. S. D. Ami; and Board of Directors, Mr. Roman F. Loren zo, Div. Supt. of Schools, Dr. P. de la Liana, Dist. Health Officer, Dr. Angel I. Reyes, Resident Physician, Mr. Donato Ducusin, Prov. Treasurer, and Rev. Austin V. Dowd, and Mrs. Isabel M. Barroso. Cuyo Woman’s Club, Palawan is doing things. It is club projects. The officers deserve the sincere congratu lations that we are extending to them. Miss Emilia Ponce de Leon is the president of the club, and Miss Beatriz Gabus is the secretary. Worthy of emulation also is the outgoing president of Baguio Woman’s Club, Mt. Province, Mrs. T. C. Arvisu. The newly elected officers generously feel that they would be doing well if they could follow Mrs. Arvisu’s footsteps. These officers are: President, Mrs. Anatolia G. Lopez; Vice-President, Mrs. Cerveza Negra-San Miguel! This tempting and delicious food tonic has proven to be a reliable and beneficial drink for young mothers— It is appetizing and refreshing and has the stimulating and invigorating qualities that are essential to a good food beverage— It is good for the aged and the young—expectant and nursing mothers—convalescents— Buy it by the case—keep it ready for any time you may care to drink it— It is a product of the SAN MIGUEL BREWERY Manila, November, 1937 87 Amanda Esquivel; Secretary, Miss Nena Bayan; Sub-Sec retary, Miss Arsenia B. Dumpit; Treasurer, Miss Irene Francia. The Currimao Woman's Club is also an up-to-date club. Under the able leader ship of the newly elected president, Mrs. Maria D. Re yes, the woman are carrying out their club projects suc cessfully. We have very gratifying news from the San Narciso Woman’s Club, Zambales. It seems that the National Re lief Board, of which Sec. Elpidio Quirino is chairman, has promised to take up the mat ter of the rebuilding of the Puericulture Center in San Narciso with the other mem bers of the board. Good luck, ladies 1 Our field worker in Pangasinan reports that the local clubs there are “doing all right”. The Umingan Wom an’s Club, the San Nicolas Woman’s Club, and the Manaoag Woman’s Club, for ins tance, are pushing through their literacy and nursery campaigns with good results. Oroquieta Woman’s Club, Occidental Misamis, elected the following ladies for their officers: President, Mrs. Paz 0. Montalvan; Vice-President, Mrs. Victoria G. Berenguel; Secretary, Mrs. Candida A. Revil; Treasurer, Mrs. ApoIonia 0. Mancao; and Board of Directors, Mrs. Eugenio Enerio, Mrs. Claudio Cuerpo, Mrs. Corazon Macalam, Mrs. Cornelia Bajade, Mrs. Cresencia de Barras. From Canamau, Ca marines Sur, we received the follow ing list: President, Mrs. Maura Y. Pangindian; VicePresident, Mrs. Socorro A. Medenilla; Secretary, Miss Dionisia Severo. The Canaman Woman’s Club is small as yet, but the members are active and alive. The literacy and nursery projects are in good hands in Sta. Isabel. Malolos, Bulacan. A new Auxiliary Woman’s Club has recently been organ ized there which is whole heartedly pushing them through. The officers elect ed were: President, Miss Pilar ^"^VOMA^S^HOME^ Reyes; Vice-President Miss ’ Elena Nicolas; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Felicita Ber nabe ; and Board of Directors, Miss Salud Cruz, Mrs. Pilar Robles, Mrs. Carmen Caluag, and Mrs. Socorro Lazaro. Miss Juana L. Bactat, NFWC representative, organized the club with the help of Mrs. Godofredo Buendia. After the organization of the club, Mrs. Sixta L. Bernardo, president of the Malolos Woman’s Club and one of the prominent club women of Bulacan gave a very encouraging talk. Here’s to the success of your undertak ings, Malolos ladies. They say what’s in a name. Yet we have requested the Bauar es’ Club to change the n * a ’me of their club to Bauanc^unior Woman’s Club. The reason is so that there need not arise any unneces sary mistakes and possible misunderstandings later due to confusion in names. The circle, according to the letter of the president, Miss Josefa A. Aberraja, is undertaking many commendable club pro jects. We should enjoy hear ing about your plans, young ladies! * * * When one talks of clubs the most natural thing one thinks about is club projects. Right now all the clubs of the NFWC is up to their necks in Superior for Cooking— Carnation Evaporated Milk AS often as your recipe calls for milk, use Carnation Evaporated Milk for cooking. lcS purity, its smoothness, its richness, add to the quality of your foods — make them more tasty and wholesome. Carnation Milk has been evaporated to double richness, there!ore you should dilute it with an equal part of water; then it is ready for use in soups and sauces, cocoa and chocolate, puddings and custards — any of the foods your family enjoys. Because of its cream-like consistency, use Carnation Milk as it comes from the tin for creaming coffee, fruit and cereals. Its flavor is delightful — its quality always uniform. Write for a copy of “Caraation Recipes”— a handy cook book for use in every home. Safe Milk of Finest Quality Look for the Carnation label Two sizes all dealers' PrPA PrAminmq- Carnation labels may be exchanged for ±ree irremiums. vaiuable premiums any time oefore Dec. 31, 1938, at Pacific Commercial Company’s premium depart ment in Manila (125 Escolta), in Cebu or in Iloilo. Write for a copy of the Carnation Premium catalog. literacy and nursery cam paigns. From Oquendo, Sa mar, Mrs. Anatolia B. Rono, President of the Woman’s Club, writes that “the Kin dergarten class is now goingon smoothly in spite of the many handicaps.” The enroll ment is big, we learn, and the teachers are (who receive no compensation) e n t h u s i a stic. That’s the spirit! Miss Filomena Bonagua, field worker in Albay, reports about the literacy work in Daraga, Libog, and Tabaco, as going on successfully. Miss Gracia Querubin, field worker in Ilocos Sur, adds her encouraging mite by news re(Continned on page 45) 38 Manila, November, 1937 MOVIE SECTION (Continued from page 21) of the make-up Westmores). The two eloped and get mar ried after a whirlwind court ship, was separated by their different professions, and now after two months of married life they have agreed to tell it to the judge. The house that they had rented and furnished has never been lived in. William Powell may not re turn to the screen—for quite a long time. Heartbroken over the death of Jean Harlow, to whom he was- said to be secret ly engaged, he asked for a vacation to get over his sor row, but he could not. Re turning back to work to finish DOUBLE WEDDING with Myrna Loy, he won the sym pathy of all those who saw him—very much different from the sauve, joking Bill they knew. This picture fin ished, he sailed for Europe to be away from scenes that consantly reminded him of Jean Harlow. The last photographs taken of Jean Harlow were natural colored ones for a well-known movie magazine. William Po well asked his studio to use its influence to secure the plates for these pictures. Suc cessful, the studio officials sent the plates to William Po well’s home. The messenger, remembering something, went back to the studio, and left the plates in his car. While he was away somebody stole the plates. The sbadio announced that it would not ask any questions if the plates would be returned. Moreover, who ever stole them could have all the photographs of Jean Har low that he might want as a reward. Have You Seen? THE GOOD EARTH with Louise Rainer and Paul Muni? If not, watch for the re-show ing of this film in Ideal Thea ter or in your neighborhood theater. This picturization of Pearl S. Buck’s famous novel is something that should not be missed, for it is supposed to be one of the greatest films ever produced. (Ideal) ‘ HOME^QURNAL^ 100 MEN AND-A^ylRL, the one hundred men bejng un employed musicians^(in * the story) and the girl Deanna Durbin? Adolphe Menjou and Mischa Auer (he is in almost every film being shown now adays), the first as Miss Dur bin’s father and the second as his pal. The story centers around the efforts of Deanna Durbin to find employment for his father who plays the trombone. She organizes an orchestra of one hundred un employed musicians like her father and succeeds in getting the famous conductor, Leo pold Stokwoski, to conduct. She sings three or four times and you hear Stokwoski and his famous symphony orches tra play several times. Alice Brady, as the wife of a radio sponsor, appears briefly but effectively. (Lyric) KID GALAHAD with Ed ward G. Robinson, Betty DaChildren do not have to be coaxed to take WATSONAL CASTORIA. They like it and ask for it because it has such a pleasant taste. So when your child starts having pains caused by stomach or intestinal dis orders, give her WATSONAL CASTORIA at once. She will reach out her hand for it and welcome it like a good old friend. WATSONAL CASTORIA is excellent for consti pation, sour stomach, convulsions, diarrhea, feverish ness, and loss of sleep. It stimulates digestion and es tablishes the habit of regularity. When it comes to castoria, insist on WATSONAL CASTORIA. Refuse imitations. P0.25 P0.60 Made and distributed by BOTICA BOIE Fold at all drug-stores Small size Large size ’vis) Humphry Bogart and a 'very charming newcomer in the person of Wayne Morris? We never did like films about boxing, but liked this one, per haps because of Wayne Mor ris, who was so natural. Ro binson, Davis and Bogart, give good performances as usual, but it is Morris you will like best. And, perhaps, a youngster (we forgot her name) who plays Robinson’s sister and Morris’ sweetheart. (Capitol) DEAD END, the screen ad aptation of the Broadway hit., with Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sid ney and the six boys who play ed in the stage version? Those who are interested in social problems should never have missed seeing this picture, which aims to show the bad effects of the slums on adoles cent boys. (State) VOGUES OF 1938, with Warner Baxter, Joan Bennett and Mischa Auer (what, is this man also in this?) and Helen Vinson? This is the finest fashion show we have ever seen and the first film that utilizes women’s gowns as the subject for natural color photography. The story is entertaining, but it is the lovely gowns that will take the women’s breath away. (State) THE GIRL SAID NO, feat uring the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operettas? The ro mance between Irene Hervey and Robert Armstrong is just an excuse to introduce these operettas, sung by a genuine operetta cast brought from New York to Hollywood espe cially for this production. Among many songs are those from The Mikado and H. M. S. Pinafore. (Metropolitan) Watch For These Films: THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA with Paul Muni in the title role. STAND IN with Leslie Howard and Joan Blondell in the stellar roles, in this story from the pen of Clarence Buddington Kelland who gave us Mr. Deeds Goes To Toivn. STAGE DOOR with Kath erine Hepburn and Ginger Ro gers, Adolphe Menjou and Gail Patrick. This is the in side story of stage-struck girls who, penniless, exist on dreams and hopes, while wait ing for the call of footlight fame. ANGEL with Marlene Die trich, Herbert Marshall and Melvyn Douglsts. This is a triangle story, only for so phisticates. WIFE, DOCTOR and NURSE with Warner Baxter as the doctor who marries his patient, Loretta Young, and finds out that he cannot do without his nurse, Virginia Bruce. Never mind how their wives dress, what jewel ry they wea. It is far more important to know whether the candidates themselves are the stuff of which statesmen are made—or just cheap poli ticians. 39 Manila, November, 1937 , THE FIVE GREATEST. (Continued from page 33) number of her followers. Not long after she and more than ninety of her leaders and lieutenants were put to death on the scaffold. The life of this native wom an may well serve as a model and an inspiration to the peo ple particularly the women of her native land. Bitterly re senting the abuses which had been repeatedly heaped on the head of her people, and eager to protect the rights of the natives by fighting on the field of battle the tyrannical agents of the sovereign, she showed a patriotism of the highest order and proved that she was possessed of a spirit of public service of the rarest kind, capable of stretching herself to the limit even to the point of laying down her life for the common weal. Who will doubt that Dona Maria Josefa Gabriela de S i 1 a n g more than acquit herself as a worthy prototype of her coun try’s Tandang Sora, Agueda Cahabagan, Trinidad Tecson, ^-WOMAN’S HOltfE.- A /Svy e n By Manuel E. BueXafe The evening now begins to pour her shade On land and sea to which the waning sun, Expiring in the west, adieu has bade; While the bright amethystine sky turns dun Dark-dyeing the lapiz lazuli deep, And the austere majestic mountain peaks Their robes of greenery begin to keep For the nocturnal interlude, then seeks My mind the cheering haven that is you To drive the multiple cares of the day, Like a sea-gull the darkness cleaving through To seek some cliffly shelters in the bay. And rested once again next day would find More aimless strivings for the wand’ring mind. Captain Salome, and a legion of intrepid and fearless lead ers and fighters under the cloak of frail womanhood? * * * LEADING ARTIST: Praxe des Julia (Yeyeng) Fernanclez. PREXEDES JULIA FER NANDEZ popularly known as Yeyeng was the pioneer artist on the Philippine Stage, was the Filipino singer and ac tress par excellence who in about 1890 played important roles in La Viuda Alegre, La Mascota, La Cara de Dios, El Conde de Luxemburgo, and Bocaccio. She was the crowned Queen of the drama tic stage. She was the leading character in the well known group of artists including Miss Patrocinio Tagaroma, Miss Susara, Mr. Jose Car vajal, Mr. Nemesio Ratia (fa ther), and Mr. Angel Ortiz. This pioneer group was fol lowed by that group of cele brated vernacular artists of whom Misses Maria Carpena, Estanislawa, San Miguel, Hilaria Alvarez were the most outstanding. The plaudits of the popu lace here won by Praxedes Fernandez re-echoed in Spain. During her artistic ca reer, she was showered on with tributes and praises from all sides, the most outstand ing of which was sung by the editor of the Spanish news paper “Mundos” of Madrid:.Praxedes Fernandez aside from her fine singing because of her strong and ivell modu lated voice, sings with passion and understands the char acters whom she interprets, in short, she controls them and gives each her ozitstanding importance. Another pa per in Madrid “El Teatro” paid the following tribute: There is in the Philippines a famous artist who ought to be known by any one inter ested in dramatics, because of her extraordinary merits and her unusual talent as a singer and actress. This is the famous Praxedes Fer nandez, the best and the most popular among the dramatists (Continued on page 45) Always in Demand! for its delicious refreshing and thirst-quenching delights ROYAL^RU® RANGE Fruit juices are always tempting—and more so as a re freshment when they are lightly carbonated — This delicious drink is lightly carbonated, giving it the re freshing sparkle— In each and every bottle you can see the pulp of the luscious fresh fruit and taste the fresh natural juice— It is truly a health drink a product of the SAN MIGUEL BREWERY 40 MANILA WOMEN ASK (Continued from page 18) lo attempt to patch up a lot of old, broken apparatus, for in tin * hour of utmost need, such stuff, under strain, will clutter up effort and sacrifice the lives of heroic men. And, there is such a thing as brow-beating •Government offi cials into accepting what they must lake, and making them pocket their judgment to hold their jobs. We feel that the time is ripe for a •thorough regeneration of the Ma nila Fire Department. New engi nes should be in each of the eight. (<S) engine houses. The outdated, super-annuated, faithful old wrecks on hand, should be assigned to such outlaying districts or towns as may, in the future, be added to the City. They are probably, though antique, better than those, at present on hand, in these towns. Other municipalities have found that (he cheese paring process is ft costly error when applied to hu man lives, values in commercial property and the impression among the people that they are not being protected by their Government. Demand is made on the people for loyalty and the services of the Government to them in fire pro tection, light and water, streets, education and preservation of law and order, continuously cited. When any part of this claim breaks down, when it is merely a sounding but unfulfilled boast, the public has good reason to doubt the capacity of those charged with public affairs, good reason to chal lenge their sincerity. The response in the past to all appeals made for a better Fire Department, so far as its actual power to give adequate service to the City, has always been met with evasion or the “lack of funds”. This can no longer be adanced. We not only ask yon to entirely renoate and bring up to date the Ma INSURANCE FIRE—MARINE AUTOMOBILE—ACCIDENT—PLATE GLASS WORKMAN’S COMPENSATION Atlas Assurance Company, The Employer’s Liability Limited Assurance Corporation, Ltd. Continental Insurance Co. Orient Insurance Company Insurance Company of North America E. E. ELSER, INC. GENERAL AGENTS Kneedler Bldg. No. 400 Telephone 2-24-28 Officers of the Ciriiniao (Ilocos Norte) Woman’s Club who were eh-eteil Iasi February. nila Fire Department, but to see that justice is done to the gallant personnel, and that pensions be provided for them when incapaci tated by their hazardous life or from the time they find it neces sary to honorably retire. Respectfully submitted: Civic Committee Manila Woman’s Club ARGUMENT We have the honor to bring to your attention a matter that we be lieve charged with the duties ap pertaining to your department that, given its reiati'. e importance in this, the Capital of the Philippines, will redound to placing it on a higher level of service to the com munity and the Archipelago. We refer to the creation of a WOMAN'S POLICE SQUAD, with either Patrol duties and powers or such other specific du ties as in your judgment and that of the Honorable Mayor and Chief of Police, would redound to the safety of woman and children; ser vices justly due and remaining un performed by the regular police. It goes without saying that the police have the safely ami peace of the city in their charge, day and night, 3()5 days in the year. An inadequate force, a constantly dwindling force has been attempt ing to perform multitudinous du ties here for the past several year.-. No matter what explanation may be offered for this—it is not enough. The <aicly of the poor est citizen, the weakest woman, the smallest child is a sacred public charge that no amount of juggling with figures or departmental dis cussion, can lessen or explain away. We are aware that the Ma nila Police Department, in itself, has proved both brave and effi cient but the continual pruning, the continual attrition, the continual doubt of power to act, has all but athropied them and deprived them of the spirit that in years past made them the reliance and the terror of law breakers. This has been attributed to many causes, none so vigorously as “lack of money.” We realize with re lief that this ghost has, for the time, been eliminated. We, there fore, appeal to you as the “Com missioner of Safety”, to act in such a manner as to reinstate conyianikt, November, 1937 lidence in -the Police power in Ma nila, and to add to it a unit that trill make the women of the Phil ippines feel that they have secured some recognition and are really participating in their Government. In 1914, this Club, in response to complaints filed with them and a rising tide of indignation among women that arrests of women were made by Policemen and that con sequent searches and treatment of women, taken to the Police Sta tions, were not such as became ihe dignity of the force nor a legal arm of justice, demanded and, with the kind .assistance of <the then Chief of Police, secured four Police Matrons. They were as signed to continuous service, day and night and have, to the best of information, remained on duty (though some have retired for age and been substituted) up to the present. So far, so good. But every effort to secure a Police Patrol by women, has been unsatisfactory. Now and then, we have read of women doing some of this work but never were informed that they were not Probation Of ficers or individual women doing detective work, for the Police De partment, assigned to specific cases. We have, again and again, pointed out to the Honorable Mayor and Councilors that Manila har bored and harbors “Employment Agencies”, which are used to bring to Manila girls and groups of ig norant and unsophisticated provincianas, who are led into a contract they do not understand and. ship ped like human cattle to the City by unscrupulous agents. They are whisked off to such headquarters as these “Employment Agencies” provide and there ostensibly fed and cared for. Their future gen erally lies with the dens of vice and depravity, provided by men and women who use the “Employment Agencies” as feeders for such es tablishments, in and out of the city, and these poor creatures fall an easy victim to the traps set for’ them. There is no disputing this; it is again and again featured in the daily papers of this city. We have besought the Department of Justice to secure the enactment of a “Mann Act,” such as protects girls and women in the United Sta tes from being taken from State to State for venal purposes. We have appealed to the Department of Justice and Department of Labor, to assign women inspectors in the South to watch the depart ing ships and have women inspec tors meet every Southern boat, bus terminals, arriving trains and other traffic vehicles which convey and bring human cargo to Manila, (constantly and increasingly they do it)—in vain. No such women have been employed, no such wom en appointed, no such action taken. We are aware that several Hotels and many “Lodging Houses,” in (Continued on page 43} ^^yManila, November, 41 MONTHLY BRIEFS (Coutimied from puge (i) portant village... B'omei, Jap anese news agency, reported that (>0 Soviet aviators and armored car technicians were due to arrive in Nanking with 3) Soviet armored cars, 70 machine guns and 18 can nons. Relief for tens of thousands of refugees packed like cattle in the International Settlement and French concession camps became a prob ability last November 4 when China and Japan reached an agree ment to demilitarize the northern third of Nantao village just out side of the French concession. The district would be patrolled by Chinese police, it was understood.... Chiaotung University alone houses eight thousand refugees being fed by the International Relief Commit tee, protected by the French flag. Tn Sioecawei, a small Catholic set tlement in Chinese territory out side of the French concession, four thousand war victims are being housed temporarily. JNSURGENT General Francisco Franco announced last Novem ber 3rd that he had won the overa-year-old civil war in Spain ami immediately asked foreign govern ments to recognize his provisional government. .. .Italy, Germany and Japan signed an anti-communist pact in Rome last November G. Foreign diplomatic experts express ed fear that the new pact might contain secret military clause...... Japanese drive into Shanghai suc cessful with the capture ot Nantao. Chinese stronghold, last November 10. Chiang Kai-shek’s second “lost battalion” abandoned the fort reson the Nantao Bund. Japanese for ces continue their drive toward tieinterior of China, with Nanking as the objective... .Angered by Jap an’s blunt refusal to attend media tion conferences, the delegates io Freckles Secretly and Quickly Removed! 'Stillman’s Freckle Cream bleaches them out while you sleep. Leaves the skin soft and white—the com plexion fresh, clear and natural. For 37 years thousands of users have endorsed it. So easy to use. The first jar proves Its magic worth. CREMA BELLA AURORA Removes T Whitens Freckles 1 The Skin For sale at all good drug store * Stillman Co., Manufacturers, Aurora, Ill., U. S. A. GIRLS' WEEK MESSAGE National Girls' Week repre sents an idea conceived for the purpose of bringing our girls closer to our conception of what an ideal girl is. The activities during the week have for their purpose the development of all sides of the character of our girls. It is the aim to impress upon the minds of our young girls their duty towards God and country, to the home, the family and so ciety. If this aim is achieved, much will have been done to ward making our girls, who con stitute our future womanhood, God-fearing and patriotic citizens of our common country. (Sgd.) Esperanza L. Osmena the Nine-Power Conference in Brus sels abandoned (November 2) all attempts to negotiate willi Japan. Great Britain and Eranee have vir tually thrown the fate of the Con ference into the lap of the United States by agreeing to join in any effort, except war, which the Unit>'<l States may wish to take regarding the Far Eastern situation. It was frankly predicted by (lie most re liable sources that the conference will fail unless the Uniled States assumes leadership in exerting posi tive pressure against -Japan. A vast colonization project in Mindanao lor rubber and lumber production is being considered by a special committee headed by Ra fael Alunan. It is understood that at least 25,000 hectares of public lands will lie used lor (lie establish ment of colonies and about a million pesos as initial appropriation pro\ided for.... A portfolio containing documents revealing plans for a serious uprising was seized in the home of Panfilo Villaflores, alleg ed Sakdal and CoIorum leader, in Sariaya, Tayabas, when army anil police men raided it... .3 lives lost, more than 70 missing, 40,000 ren dered homeless and properties and crops damaged in typhoon which passed through Luzon last Novem ber 10. In Manila alone, 4 persons were killed by electrocution from blown-down power lines. . . .The bill abolishing the ccdula tax was ap proved by the National Assembly, November 12, and signed by Pres ident Quezon, November 15. . . .The Philippines celebrated the second anniversary of the establishment -f its commonwealth government, Nov ember 15, with a military parade, followed by a speech by the Pres ident, in the morning, exhibition of floats and monuments depicting the activities and accomplishments of the government, and the planting of a molave tree by Speaker Mon tilla on the grounds of the legis lative building. Personal l * uug 'J'apales scored in her de but before Manila audience in the first presentation of the opera, Ma dame Butterfly, in the Metropoli tan Theater last November 8. (hue Sarazeu. American golf wi zard, arrived in Manila for a scries of tournaments and exhibition mat ches. The Suu Miguel Breutry through its president, Andres Soriano, was awarded a diploma by the CommonPHIUPPINE NIT K. BRAJD MFG. CO wealth government as a model com pany while Alfredo Montelibano of Occidental Negros was chosen as a model citizen among individual em ployers. WOMEN CANDIDATES IN CAMARINES SUR For .Member, Provincial Board: Mrs. l’az Cea (Pro) For Vice-Mayor: Mrs. Salvation R. Valer, San Jo se, C. S. (Pro) Mrs. Jastina Perez, Iriga, C. S. (Pro) Mrs. Aurora Midem, Sipocot, C. S. (Pro) For Councilors: Mrs. Pedro Frias, Naga, C. S. (Anti) Mrs. Moria Naz, Naga, C. S. (Pro) Mrs. Maria Parpan, Iriga, C. S. (Pro) .Mrs. Josefa Luzentales, Libmanan (Pro) Mrs. Maria P. Barba, Sangay (Pro) Miss Consolacion Ramirez, San Jose (Pro) Mrs. Gregorio Mendoza, Pili, C. S. (Anti) Mrs. Antonia A. Fruel, Baao, C. S. (Anti) Mrs. Vicenta Bolo, Baao, C. S. (Pro) For Mayor: Miss Luz Botas, Nimalabac (Frente Popular) A good citizen votes at every election and selects the best possible men for the office. Manila, November, 19^1"^ 42 PRINCESS PAUPER (Continued from page 17) chickens. And among those pres ent at the Kentucky Derby were Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Peabody. And “No Rift with Spouse Says Nitrate Princess.” And pictures of the Re no courthouse. . And “Farm-boy Husband Sues Wings for Alienated Affections.” And “IIow It Feels to Marry an Heiress” by Elmer Peabody, in six installments in the .New York Daily Tabloid. “I’m not saying a word against Daphne. I just had the normal American’s desire for children and a home and a home-wife, And I thought she had, too, till her family came be tween us.” And that was that. All the same, if Lucinda could ever really talk to Daphne, she’d like to ask her if it was worth it, after all. Because it might have been—even though Daphne found out in the end that the clean hon esty had nevei’ really been there. But that was the trouble; Lucinda couldn’t talk to people. She couldn’t because she wasn’t a person—she was forty-five mil lion dollars. It had taken her quite a long time to realize that, because her parents were decent and had tried to bring her up simply. Tt had worked till her father died. There were nurses who told silly stories, and nurses who went away overnight. But school had been all right—and a good school, too. Though even tl en, she had known. She had known when the other children came to play, and when she was introduced to their moth ers. It wasn’t quite definable, but it was something that made her feel as if she had six fingers. There were no real friends, be cause, somehow, they made her shy And when Wade came with the ear they would ask if he were really a private guard, and she’d say, as she had been told to say, that he woi HOUfo^OURNAL *•-* » mrti, and Loth goodSii was just one of Father’s mtti, and they’d look queer. But b^hen she was an honor student in school, and everything was going to be all right when she was really grown up. She was going to college and really learn about things and live her own life. Perhaps she’d be a research scientist—she always got A in science and it wasn’t any bunk, cither, bceause Molly Melchoir was there for a year and got 1). And supposing she was rich — that just meant she had more opportunity to do the things that counted. She said this to Father when he was sick, sitting on the end of his hospital bed, and he looked at her a little oddly and said, ‘Tin all for you, daughter. But don't be too disappointed if it’s harder than you think.” But she had thought that was just be cause he was sick. And then he died, and Mother wanted a debut but Lucinda went to college just the same because, in a way, it was like keeping a promise to him. And she stayed at college just two weeks. “ after the photogropher hid in choir loft to take pictures of in chapel, there wasn’t any staying. For it wasn’t only education wanted from college—it was careless companionship, the losing of Lucinda Charden. And that would have taken too long. It was easier to go back to New York and the penthouse and come out, as Mother wanted. Because, as the assistant dean had said, there was education in life as well as in books. And there was a great deal of education, both in life and in tra vel. There were all the hotels and beaches and the well-tanned men. Men of all ages and races. Some were themselves, some hard-boiled, menacing and possessive—they were Because the her use she the Loth goodrines. But not one of them ever forgot that he was talk ing to forty-five million dollars. “On the hoof,” thought Lucinda Charden bitterly. “On the hoof.” Perhaps she should have married the Marquis of Wyvern—that, at least, was an honest bargain. He had explained it quite carefully. And then she just couldn’t do it, somehow—not even with Mother so delighted and the announcements all ready for the morning papers. Better face the fact that Mother had wanted her to be the Marchio ness of Wyvern. Better face it, although Mother was dead. “You’re on your own now, you know, Lu cinda Charden. There’s only Aunt Fol and you and the Charden Es tate. And Aunt Fol’s perfectly nice and pefectlV timid, and as long as she has her diet and money to lose at bridge, she doesn’t much care about anything else.” Tommy Spencer, Alessandro di Follia, George Herbert Walton III. And Lucinda had really been in love with Tommy—blindly, youth fully in love. She could see Tom my’s frank young eyes and his crooked, enchanting smile. She hadn’t known it was the money— not even when they’d almost driven to Harrison. Not till the awful lit tle girl had sued Tommy for breach of promise—and then she would have believed him if he hadn’t told quite so many lies. Poor Tommv — it wasn’t all his fault — he’d come from Jonesburg to Harvard and wanted to go on. Billy Shaler had seen through him much sooner —hut then Billy was a man. That was two years ago. And since then she had been a good girl—she hadn’t tried to escape. She had done the things that peo ple did, presented a pleasant ap pearance and been always on guard. Lucinda rose restlessly and strolled up and down the roof. She was nervous today — nervous about what would be in tonight’s and tomorrow’s papers, not only about Patricia Madison but about herself. They would point out— they had already—that Lucinda Charden was now the greatest unmarried heiress in the world. And tomorrow the mail would be flooded. Not that she ever saw that mail — that was all taken care of. But she and Billy Sha ler had looked some of it over, once. That had been when she really meant to find out about the Char den fortune, and she’d made an honest effort. But it was too big a machine—a machine of trust funds and companies and state ments. They were polite at the office as they were polite at the lawyer’s—they talked to her in sim ple language—but in the end, it merely came down to signing “Lu cinda Charden.” There wasn’t even a chance of their robbing her —Father had devised the machine too well. She was safe, and Aunt Fol was safe—except for a world cataclysm. It was all taken care of per fectly. The bills went to the office or Miss Jeremy—she saw Miss Je remy for an hour, once a week. The servants changed like the sea sons. Miss Jeremy probably was the oldest in line of service—she had come six months before moth er’s death. And yet Lucinda would be hard put to it to describe Miss Jeremy, except as a good house keeper. And would Miss Jeremy or Rose or Higgins even recognize her if they once saw her out of her environment? It was an thought. “Aunt Fol,” she said to vague middle-aged lady who peared on the terrace at this ment, an air of reproachful jesty somehow wrapped about her. “do you think Miss Jeremy would recognize me? I mean if I were in a bathing suit on the wrong sort of beach and she didn’t know I’ was there?” “Of course, dear,” said Aunt Fol mildly. “Miss Jeremy is very com petent. I told Rose to bring some lemonade,” she added, “made with limes and grape sugar. Doctor Winslow says that, limes and grape sugar are perfect for the system. They have all the vitamins.” “But Aunt Fol,” persisted Lu cinda, “are you sure she would? I honestly don’t see why.” “You have the Charden chin, Lucinda. All our family have it.” “Well, it just seems like a per fectly ordinary chin to me,” said Lucinda rebelliously. “All our family have it,” said Aunt Fol, closing the conversation. “I thought you were visiting in Mount Krisco, my dear. But I’m very glad you’re here, of course.” “No, Aunt Fol. That was last week. I won’t be here for dinner, by the way. I’m going nut early O * I<1 the apmomaNovember, 193'. 43 with Billy Shaler.” “Billy is such a nice boy,” said Aunt Fol reflectively. “He has the Charden chin.” “He should—if there’s anything in it,” said Lucinda, “After all, we’re half second cousins.” "Such an odd rclati mship,” said Aunt Fol. “But they married so oddly in those old days.” For the first time a gleam of real interest appeared in her eves. “My dear,” she said, “1 must tell you. I have my own ideas about Margaret.” “Not that mousy little girl in the kitchen, Aunt Fol?” “She is not mousy,” said Aunt Fol firmly. “I think she has come here on forged references. I no ticed her yesterday, looking at my sunburst. I shall take it up with Miss Jeremy tomorrow.” “But Aunt Fol----- ” Lucinda be gan, and then stopped. It was no use reasoning with Aunt Fol on that particular subject—ever since the chauffeur at Blue Stream had written the threatening letters. What was it Jiilly called that sort of thing—“part of the occupational hazard of being rich”? You just had to be hard-boiled about it— hard-boiled and sensible. Every six months or so Aunt Fol selected the most inoffensive member of their household staff and assever ated that he or she was harboring jmt lim tPte_. utodatio+i ofa a, dlcfi+tq UflucA cast last. . . Free press ______________ PHOTO-ENGRAVING, INC. true to the tradition of service and Fairness of that great name, is gradually assuming its right ful place of leadership along this line. -------'WOMAN’S * '^ME V '‘X ■signs. Then Ltrcinda and sore at “myself. Imi sere at Pat Madison liQr finding somebody she can ’ marry.” She kissed the top of Annt Fol’s head. “ ‘By, dear,” she said. Lucinda went to her room, maid — was it Rose or Grace'/ Rose!—gave her a neatly typed slip of telephone calls. She no ticed, without interest, that there were twenty-seven names, and twenty-four of them were mascu line. There were also various flowers. “Oh, thank you, Rose, just put them .somewhere. No— bath later. I’ll just lie down for a minute.” It was a silver-and-crystal room. People said, “Oh!” when they came into it. Lucinda had ceased to see it any more. Now she wan dered about it restlessly. "These are all my things,” she thought, "and yet they aren’t mine. Except for those little snapshots ot Fa ll.er and Mother.” She picked up the small silver mounted case and looked at them intently. They weren’t portraits, goodness, posed and important. On the back of the snapshots, where nobody ever looked, were messages written in a round school girl hand. “1 want to have pretty eyes like Mother." "I want to learn about things and help Father with them.” Signed, "Lucinda Charden,” and a date. She Mailed a little wistfully. She sat down for a moment at the silver-and-crystal dressing ta ble and stared at the face reflected in the mirror. It was, considered coldly, a fashionable face. Tliev turned them out by the hundred, if you went to the right places. Hnir by Philippe; complexion by Elizabeth Garden; sports costume by------Take those away and what would be left? Not the hard strength in Father’s jaw; not even Mother’s eyes, for they had been blue. Brown hair, brown eyes, a good-enough skin, a mouth that was growing discontented—a com munity face. It would be worth while to find out it anything lay under the mask. Moved by a sudden impulse, she went to the little writting desk, tore a slip of silvered paper from a pad and wrote on it rapidly in pencil: “I want to stop having six fingers — Lucinda Charden.” She dated it and slipped it behind the snapshot of Cyrus Charden. The little lock on the back of the case was a secret, but she hadn’t forgotten how to work it. Then she put the case back on the night table beside her bed. It was superstitious, it was my she dark designs. Then ---Miss Jeremy would have to straightten it out—and unj’ortunatcly, ii usually meant more than one change. "But when I'm old. I’ll be like her," thought Lucinda sudden ly. “Not bridge, probably—more likely crosswor.i puzzle * . But the same thing. And thinking most people are impostors who really want to steal my sunburst. Oh, 1 can’t bear it!” “What is it you can’t bear, dear ?” said Aunt Fol. Lucinda hadn’t realized that had spoken aloud. Jitters. "Oh, I don’t know. Having six fingers,” she said. She saw the expression on Aunt Fol’s face and hurried on, “Don’t worry, dear. I was just talking. I won’t take a ear—Billy’s calling for me, and lie’ll bring me back. There’ll lx some people tomorrow for cock tails—writers and people.” ".Just tell Miss .Jeremy, dear,” said Aunt Fol. "Then you're not "I may. I don't know. I’ll tell you if 1 do." "All right, dear,” said Aunt Fol. "And if 1 said I were going on the Byrd expedition, it would be just the same,” thought Lucinda. "But I've always known that and she's rather a dear and why am I getting sore at her? I'm not. I’m sore at “myself. I’m sere at Pat A MANILA WOMEN. . {Continued from page -10) Manila are mere “Road Houses” for the convenience of vice. We do not expect to exterminate it, but we do consider that it should be curbed and that victims or ig norant girls and women should not be ruthlessly exploited in the Ca pital of a Christian country. Re cently, a raid was staged on “Sec ond Class Bars” where after the manner of Continental “Pubs’V girls are now employed as waitres ses. It died down, after the man ner of such investigations and the “Second Class Bai's” again are in full swing. We believe that wom en Police would act as a curb on such exploitation and perhaps, oc casionally rescue or prevent the debanehment of a helpless or friend less girl. We call your attention to Cines, Parks, Boulevards, the locality of Schools and other semi public places that are the habitat of degenerates. We believe that a body of Women Police, not. less than ten (10) in number, either uniformed or ununiformed as con ditions dictate, but with power of arrest, would give the powers of evil a jolt such as they have never yet known in this City. We believe that t would and a there, could women City, seeking protection or help go. Coming as you do from Wash ington, D. C., you are naturally aware of the large part played by the Police Women of the U. S. capital. All the countries of the world, even China, Egypt, and Turkey, have them. They are no longer an experiment. They have taken their part in the preserva tion of that which is dear to honor able people and they have increased in efficiency and in numbers through the years. We desire to thank Mayor Juan Posadas, Jr. and Chief Antonio C. Torres for sympathy and courtesy.’ In the hope that you will take this matter under earnest considera tion and take favorable action at an early date, we have the honor to remain. Very respectfully, CIVIC COMMITTEE Manila Women’s Club to accomplish this, there be a “Woman's Precinct,’' Woman Sergeant in charge To this Precinct, parents appeal and to it, girls or i especially strangers in the childish. But Pat Madison’s mar riage had bron-’ht the thoughts and feelines of half a dozen vears to a crisis. She stretched her arms wide. “I’ve got to get out of it somehow." she said. (To Be Continued) OnE TRIQL WILL COnVIflCE YOU OF THE TRUTH OF OUR CLOUD FOR OCEAN PEARL BUTTONS Made in Manila COME TO OUR STORE AT 460 Calle Dasmarinas MANILA BUTTON FACTORY, INC. 44 THIRD NATIONAL. . . (Continued from page 2) Enlist the support of the town officials for a program for this day that will bring the girls into close contact with the government. As sign two or three girls to observe each department, and to familiar ize themselves with the duties of the corresponding officials. Other girls should be assigned to study the municipal ordinances and the budget. These girls should report to the school their observations for comment and discussion. A resolu tion from the Girls’ Citizenship committee endorsing or requesting the passage of some municipal legis lation can be sent to the council. The teachers should be requested to make “Citizenship” the keynote of the day’s work. English classes can write essays, and civics and history classes can conduct group discussions with special emphasis on •the importance and proper use of the right of suffrage which the Filipino women have recently won. Social Service Day (Dec ember 8) Have the girls visit hospitals, puericulture centers, nursery and literacy classes. They should carry clothing, food delicacies, milk, ma gazines, flowers, toys, and etc. as donations; and should read, recite, sing or entertain those who are able to enjoy entertainment. Whenever practical the same spirit of service should be extended to the sick or needy in private homes. Develop the spirit of service to such an extent that volunteers for service to carry out the projects of the women’s clubs or the junior woman’s clubs can be recruited among the girls on this day. Home Day (December 9) See that the girls not only do their usual share in the household chores, but also take over other work in the house. If possible urge the girls to prepare one of the meals during the day, including on the menu the dish which particularly appeals to the rest of the family. The parents should cancel all other engagements for this day and de vote it entirely to the girls. They should bring the conversation around the necessity of preserving the unity of the family and the home, and convincing the girls that home is the best place. Encourage the girls to observe measures in their homes to improve it, noting whether more effective practices for the good of the family group can be initiated. This inventory may include a study of the medicine chest, accident hazards in the home, proper lighting, etc. Home Economics classes should conduct demonstrations for the whole school on the various features of their work. Emphasis should be laid in the preparation of dishes utilizing cheap but nutritious food materials such as “darak”, cassava, and soy beans. Recipes can be secured from the Plant Utilization Remember how sternly mother used to frown on second helpings? Of course, we got them sometimes, but afterwards we usually wished we hadn’t, because in those days desserts were rich and “yummy” and very indigestible. Times have changed, however, and food habits along with them. Mother has learned that desserts are important, because they give out energy for tiny bodies to burn up in healthy play. She has also learn ed that puddings especially are ex cellent carrier;; for the milk that children so often refuse to drink. Nowadays when Jerry or Betty ask for a second helping, they get it with a smile from mother thrown in for good measure. Prepared pudding mixtures, such as used in making the pudding il lustrated, have taken most of the labor out of the preparation of children’s desserts. Even when the youngsters bring three or four friends from school with them, lun cheon isn’t much of a problem. A few extra slices of bread and jelly, a glass of milk apiece, and—for a final touch—one of the desserts, whose recipes we are giving below. No one—not even a princess—could have a. nicer meal. VANILLA PUDDING WITH NUTS Put the contents of one package Division of the Bureau of Plant In dustry. Social Day (December 10) The pleasure derived from social intercoui’se is an important element in appreciating and making the most of life. The girls should be hostesses in a simple party or tea with the par ents, teachers, clubwomen, a n d friends as guests. A simple pro gram may be prepared but the main feature should be the entertainment of new acquaintances through inter esting and intelligent conversations, gracious manners, etc. Play Day (December 11) Although many modern girls take of Royal Vanilla Pudding in a saucepan. Add 1 pint (2 cups) of cold milk, a little at a time, stir ring the mixture smooth. Cook over a low fire, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens and boils up once. Remove from fire and pour into a glass mould previously dip ped in cold water. Sprinkle brown ed almonds or other chopped nuton top. PEANUT BRITTLE PUDDING 1 package Royal Vanilla Pudding 2 cups milk % cups finely crushed peanut brittle Alix the Royal Vanilla Pudding with the milk and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from fire and cool. Just before serving add finely crushed peanut brittle. Serves 5 to 6. QUICK RICE PUDDING 1 package Royal Vanilla Pudding 2 cups milk 2 cups cooked rice % teaspoon salt Alix Royal Vanilla Pudding in milk to make smooth paste. Bring to boiling point, stirring constantly. Add rice and salt. Chill thoroughly. No. 106 delight in the sports of today, yet it is still necessary to encourage and to give all the girls a chance to play and experience the pleasure of inter-association a n d cooperation that comes with it. Organize community-wide field meets for the girls in such a way that will permit the participa tion of as many of them as pos sible. Arrange for a program of folk dances and songs in the after noon and the prizes for the athletic meet can be awarded here. Invite prominent girl athletes to be guests during this program and fo'give short inspirational talks. Radio Programs Through the courtesy of the Manila, November, /9S7 FATHER MEETS (Continued from page 15) fer with a woman, it doesn’t mean that you have different views as far as she is con cerned. It means that you don’t feel the same about her as you did before you express ed a different view. If you understand that, imagine how difficult it will be to explain it to Gloria. Don't try. Just remember what you have been learning in business: The customer is always right. Are you polite to a custom er? Are you friendly? Are you kind? Are you thought ful? Do you keep your opin ions to yourself if you feel they are going to start argu ments? Do you set out to charm your customer? Do you look for points to be complimentary about? Do you flater him, subtly, but as often as possible? Then you know all there is to know about getting- along with a wife! Affectionately, DAD Radio broadcasting Committee and Station KZRAI, the folio w i n g broadcasts will be made from Dec ember 4 to 11: RECOGNITION DAY .... University of the Philip pines CHURCH DAY......................... Assumption College Holy Ghost College PARENTS’ AND DAUGH TERS’ DAY..................... Santo Tomas Universitv CITIZENSHIP DAY............... National University SOCIAL SERVICE DAY . . . Philippine Women’s Uni versity HOME DAY.............................. Institute de Mujercs Far Eastern Universitv SOCIAL DAY........................... St. Scholastica’s College PLAY DAY................................. Philippine Normal School If there is a radio in the town plaza all the girls should be re quested to listen in on these pro grams. If there is no public ra dio, arrangements should be made with the owner of radio sets so that the girls can listen in. Watch the newspapers for the time of the broadcasts. Pictures And Reports Whenever possible, have pic tures taken of all the activities of the Week, preferably action pictures. A copy of these pic tures together with a detailed re port on the celebration should be sent to the headquarters as soon as the Week is over. I November, 1937 THE FIVE GREATEST. . . {Continued from page 39) of the Archipelago. During her operatic career she had been favored with theatrical engagements in Hongkong and Macao in 1908. She died in 1919. And al though some of the gentle sex had made names in the oper atic stage yet so far none has been able to equal her achieve ments in dramatic art. * * * NOTED POET: Mrs. Leona, Florentino-Reyes, Former Senator de los Reyes’ Mother. In the realm of poetry and arts, our women find in DONA LEONA FLOREN TINO, mother of former Sen ator Isabelo de los Reyes, their worthiest representative. Her works have been greatly ad mired not only in her own country but also in Europe where a number of her mas terpieces have been exhibited in the “Exposition Internanational” held in Paris in 1889 and in the “Exposition Filipina” held in Madrid in 1987. Actually a number of her important works are found carefully treasured on the shelves of the “Bibliot h e q u e International des Ceuvres de Femmes” in Pa ris. Very unfortunately most of the originals of her works had been lost during the troublous times of the Revolu tion. Dona Leona wrote in her native dialect but she also possessed such a mastery of the Spanish language as to elicit the praise of her contem poraries. She was only a child when she began to sing the thoughts and sufferings of her people. It is repeatedly told that in the zenith of her literary career she could dic tate at once to three amanuen ses on as many different to pics and at the same time composing one for herself to jot down. She died young at the age of thirty five. * * * PHILANTHROP IST: Doha Margarita Roxas de Ayala. While it has always been the practice to eulogize a per son with a philanthropic (Continued from page 37) aAd to preach spirit world for more philanthrop ists, yet most of ^hose who preach and are in a position to practice what they preach are generally the ones who fail to give. On the other hand, DONA MARGARITA ROXAS DE AYALA, with out ostentation and without preaching, practiced philan thropy. She stands above the Filipino women of the past as the first in business abil ity as well as in philanthropic undertaking. It was due to Dona Mar garita’s ability that her fa ther’s business prospered. She was a pioneer coal miner who exploited the Cebu coal mines. The establishment of the pre sent San Miguel Brewery was the product of her business foresight. Among her philanthropic undertakings was the bring ing into the Philippines of fif teen Sisters of Charity on March 5, 1862. She provided them with a beautiful house. This was the nucleus of the present La Concordia College, the left wing of which was built from funds raised from a subscription among the wealthiest people in the city. Dona Margarita led them by giving a large sum. The terrible earthquake of 1863 damaged the San Juan de Dios Hospital to a great extent. For its reconstruction a “Charity Bazar” was held in April, 1869, of which she was appointed the President. The collection reached the considerable amount of P29,652.11. On another occasion following the promptings of her highly philanthropic soul, she provided from her own purse ample funds for the improvement of the San Jose Asylum. She died at the age of fortythree amidst the sincere griefs and sorrows of the many per sons benefited by her gener ous acts. She, in life, possesWe also have NOVELTIES in BUCKLES and DISHES of genuine MOTHER of PEARL. Come and see them at our store No. 460 Calle Dasmarinas MANILA BUTTON FACTORY, INC. garding * ^ie progress of her literacy work in Lapog. From Romblon, Romblon, we heard from Mrs. Baranda de Rovira, who assured us that the women in her town “are very active in all lines of civic endeavour and commu nity upliftment.” It seems that we do not need to worry about Romblon’s women tak ing active part in the coming elections. We need not go far, how ever, to give examples of civicmindedness. Mrs. Maria L. Ubaldo reports the work of the Tondo Woman’s Club in their campaign against illiter acy. The club is facing diffi culties in educating the adult illiterates, but they are push ing on. And in nearby Cavite, in the town of San Roque, the Woman’s Club is actively fighting illiteracy with de monstrations and classes. Pangasinan is not to be overlooked when we are speaking of successful club projects and campaigns. In Asingan, in Balungao, and in San Nicolas, the adult classes are going on with marked favorable results. The gradsed business ability, love of home, and charity—the three outstanding characteristics of a Filipino woman. She sure ly is the prototype of such present day women philan thropists as are the Vda. de Bayion de la Rama who donat ed fifty-thousand pesos to the University of the Philippines and Dona Gorgonia Vda. de Mapa who donated to the na tional library and museum of the government her collection of jewelry, gold coins, silverware, paintings, Filipinana books, etc., both of which do nations constitute the most precious gifts received by the Philippine Government dur ing the last decade. (END) 45 uation of the students is al ready being planned for with much enthusiasm on the part of both teachers and pupils. * * * We have left for the last, one of the newest projects of the NFWC—the -factory serv ice. We are pleased to re port that the work is going on smoothly and that not only the women, but the men fac tory workers as well, are being benefitted. Cases of ill ness are reported before they can develop to a dangerous state, and workers who should be helped by the Associated Charities and other organiza tions are referred to the pro per people with recommenda tions. SHEERER THAN EVER ... AND INFINITELY STRONGER! Here’s the hosiery for the gala moments in your life. Wear them because they look so beautiful, fit so perfectly, and last so long! HOLEPROOF HOSIERY H A MI l.TO a - B .. O U X SHOE CO. 109 Esc.lt:,. 11:1x1.1. 46 WOMEN AT THE [Continued from page 12) the lower classes, the past impotency bred an inferior ity complex. Worse, some of them lost interest in public affairs, even in those that particularly boncern them and their homes and children. But the leaders of women were as aggressive as could f be. Theirs was an intelligent concern in our government and society at large. The field for intelligent leadership is even more ex citing and important today. Our democracy is constantly charged as being a good form of mis-government: cynics assert that our women would make “a hell of it!” It is for every intelligent and clear headed woman to make a lie of the prophesy. Women stand at the cruci ble. A first test is always an important test. The real test of women’s merit of the vote will first come on Dec ember 14. Breathless, every body watches how women will meet the test! Meeting the test is no easy matter by any manner or means. It requires of every woman voter, intelligence, in terest in the affairs of her town and province, and above all character in high degree. It is an axiom in politics that on the “thinking, pro perty-owning, and responsi ble” voters the success or failure of a democracy de pends. The vote of the wom an who learned to read and write on the eve of registra tion day has the same weight as that of the teacher who taught her; but nine chances out of ten, she will vote as her teacher directs. Upon those women who taught others to read and write, in order to qualify as voters, falls the double responsibility of themselves voting wisely and of their directing their students to vote wisely like wise. It is not enough that a woman should be intelligent to the proper exercise of the right of suffrage. She should have a healthy, wide-awake and active interest in the gov ernment, local, provincial, and insular. She should know the men and the issues. «RATITUDt^ By^Elizabeth Crishoyn These are the things I'm grateful for Upon Thanksgiving Day— The gentle voices of my friends, The kindly words they say. The pleasant books that I have read, The places I have known— The memories that come to me When I’m alone. These are the things I’m grateful for Upon Thanksgiving Day— The color of the sunset sky, Before it turns to gray. The first shy flowers of the spring The flaming leaves of fall— The music of a meadow brook, A night bird’s call. These are the things I’m grateful for Upon Thanksgiving Day — Pale snow that settles on the earth. The cloudless blue of May. The faiths that I have never lost, The dreams for which I strive The knowledge, like a thread of song, That I’m alive! Knowing the men and the issues involved in the town and provincial elections re quires that the voter should not be content with mpre hearsay, idle and groundless gossip, o r propaganda by soapbox orators. The voter should be content with no thing but facts. She should penetrate the fog of selfrighteousness by the ins and that of virulent criticism by the outs to the realities of the municipal and provincial administrations. The lack of town and pro vincial newspapers, general ly, hampers the formation of a well-informed and intel ligent public opinion about town and provincial politics. GALISATUM But extraordinary news about provincial and town adminis trations are published by the metropolitan newspapers of Manila. Civic pride demands that administrations that have been prominent for efficien cy in advancing the welfare of a town or province be continued while those that have been infamous for inep titude and corruption be thrown into the discard. For thorough knowledge of the town and provincial gov ernments, it may be neces sary to contact the men that run them. The acts of the provincial governor, provin cial board, town mayor, and municipal council are an open book. It is well for the factManila, November, seeking voter to inquire into cnat book. The elective officials them selves can furnish inform ation as to their acts. Their accountings, however, cannot always be taken at their face value. It is best to check their statements by contact ing the town and provincial officials with whom they work. The provincial commander knows whether the provincial governor is for law and order or for lawlessness and crime. The district engineer knows how interested or how unin terested the governor is in public works. The district health officer knows how vi gilant for the health of the people the governor is. The provincial fiscal and judge can furnish information as to the governor’s attitude to ward justice and fair play. The division superintendent of schools, the provincial treasurer, and the district engineer are other officials who can furnish the truth re garding provincial adminis tration. The municipal president is easier to check. He is closer to the voter. Voters who may not have the opportunities of producing and verifying the facts about the provincial ad ministration certainly have every opportunity to know about the municipal adminis tration. The justice of the peace, the municipal doctor, the town chief of police, and the municipal treasurer can furnish additional inform ation to that which the voter already has. There is a tendency for vo ters to be uninterested in the provincial board members, the vice-president, and the municipal councilors. The provincial governor and the town mayor deserve to steal the show; but voters should vote just as carefully for the other provincial and town of ficials. A woman voter may be highly educated and wellinformed; still, she may be an enemy of a good demo cracy. She should place pu blic interest above personal interest if she is to vote well. Every good voter should not 41 *> Manila, November, 1937 neglect to vote and to in fluence others to vote for the proper candidates as the vo ters who use their votes and their influence to elect un worthy seekers of public of fice are many and are busy in their nefarious task. There are those who work as leaders for corrupt candi dates in order to be tolerated in enterprises inimical to the public welfare. Conductors of jueteng dens, maintainers of houses of ill repute, cattle rustlers, gangsters and other evil forces are at work to elect their own candidates. The forces of progress and good should work with great er zeal to win. No form of government is a good government. The best form of government is an in efficient and corrupt govern ment if the men who run it are individually inefficient and corrupt. On the other hand, the worst form of go vernment is good government if the men that run it are good. It is easy and it is difficult —which way you take it—; but every woman has to rise above personal and group ends to judge men and issues wisely—and vote according ly! OUR LIVES (Continued from page 13) And all of a sudden my icy atti tude melted in spite of myself. That was how we began to talk to each other. “Seems as if we’re going to have a splendid voyage,” he put in. “I hope it will be,” was my reply. After some time, somehow or other. I found him not too fresh as J had thought at first: the way lie asked where I was going. He said he received a letter from Zamboanga telling him to get his two children, for his wife has died a few days before. I noticed he was wearing a black ribbon band on his right arm. He added it was just too bad Lis children became orphans at a ten der age. Tall, broad shouldered, tanned, he was the type that easilyattracted women but who could eas ily get tired of them. It would not be long before he would get an other wife. Just then I felt dizzy. It had come, what I had expected. Sea sickness. So I said, “I think it is getting late.” The night had grown old. Fur ther beyond the deep, we could catch glimpses of the sea, smooth, inky black and mysterious. Prize-winning children of San Joaquin, Iloilo. I could not explain why I yield ed to his request of escorting me to my cabin. There was something touching about his ways. We made our way to my cabin slowly. He opened the door and at the threshold he said: “Pardon the intrusion, and thank you.” “For what ?” I said in amazement. “For everything.” “Forget it,” I answered casually. With a slight bow, he was gone. I hurried in and walked to my bed. I slipped into my night gown quickly for I felt tipsy. I felt the door open, and Miss Jones came in, laughing softly. “Aha, so you have found a Romas on board!” she said drop ping on her bed with a thud. “How do you know?” came from me as I slipped into bed. . “Well, my dear, 1 saw everything of it.” “Oh, did you!” I faintly answer ed pulling my blanket over me. I felt so sleepy. I must have fallen asleep at once, for I didn’t hear the rest of Miss Jones’ conversa tion. I woke up the next morning dreaming of the smiling face of a man. I could not stay on foot. My dizziness continued. So I had to go back to bed. About midday Miss Jones came in carrying a box under her- arm. There was a mischievous twinkle i.i her eyes. She placed the box on the table beside me. “From your friend, Mr. Amador,” she said looking at me quizzically. “He was looking for you at break fast table. He wants to let you know he is sorry—very sorry—you are seasick.” I kept silent at first. Then 1 said, “How do you find him, Miss Jones?” “Ob, he is a fine fellow. Very humorous, and a most charming con versationalist,” was her reply. “Well, dear, you had better keep quiet and rest,” she said and. walk ed out of the room. When I was left alone, 1 looked at the box. It contained chocolates. There was a card attached to it bearing my name: With compli ments to Miss Julia Abad. All of a sudden his smiling face flashed before me. His was a face one can not easily forget. Il was a face where disappointment had its im print. A face made mellow by pain, t eomd not understand why 1 could give him a big share of my sym pathy alter only such slight ac quaintance. The way he introduced himself in an unobstrusive way, so naively, yet in so daring a manner that he sweeps you oft your feet. Somehow or other, he left me won dering at the way he to d me of the sudden death of his wife in a mat ter of tact way. it ielt me the im pression that he did not love his wife............ However, the shadow that crossed his countenance, at his mentioning that he would look after his two children—his two angels as he called them—killed my ugly thoughts of him. For two nights we met. as if by accident at the deck. We talked to each other again and again as if we had known each other all our lives. He was certain that he would make the best of our sudden friendship. The last, night we stayed together very far in the night. He was almost silent most of the time. Indeed I could sense from his attitude that be wanted to tell me something of great im portance. Before we parted upon his request, I promised to see hin at our dormitory. There was some thing compelling in his attitude that persuaded me. The next morning was clear and golden. Hurriedly Miss Jones and 1 packed our trunks. I was the last to finish for I had a bag and a satchel. After breakfast he came. He was all smiles. He came directly to me. He asked for my baggage and those of Miss Jones. He look ed flushed and disconcerted. As the ship entered the water front lie grew more restless. The passengers were crowded on deck. Their noise and the heat made the place stuffy. The beauti ful pier of Zamboanga appeared into view. When the ship an chored we prepared to go down the gangplank. Mr. Amador called a boy to carry his trunk and the baggage of Miss Jones while he carried mine. Just when we were going- down, an old woman motioned to him. When we approached the woman, she said: “Quick, your wife is here wait ing for you.” “Oh! please excuse me,” he mum bled taking time to hand me my baggage. The look he gave me be fore he went away was that of an animal caught in a trap. I stood for a moment storing at him. I felt Miss Jones pull me by the arm and we hailed an automobile. Once in the automobile I chanced to get a glimpse of Miss Jone’s face. What struck me most was the accentuated sadness of her face. She seemed to be slightly affected by the incident which had just taken place. When she looked at me I caught a message—a fan cied one perhaps. It seemed to say: I told you so, or, I had ex pected it to end that way. I could almost smile—a smile of understanding. For the first time in my life I understood that sad, yet sweet smile on Miss Jones face. It was the smile of a frus trated soul. Because of its old! fash ioned mutton-suet base, PENETRO penetrates skin and tissue, carrying its healing medicaments directly to the seat of the congestion and pain; thus, PENETRO eases pain and relieves inflammation speedily and safely. 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At the International Tea at the Manila Hotel attended by women representing the different communities in Manila, Mrs. Josefa Llanes Eseoda, organization man ager, suggested that Chain Parties be held as the most effective (and pleasant) means of raising money. Everybody present at the tea re ceived the suggestion with enthus iasm and each pledged to give a party. This is the way the Chain Party works: Each of the women present at the International Tea gives a party to which she invites eight friends, each bringing with her a peso as her contribution to the funds. Each of these eight wom en in turn gives a party to which she invites four friends, each of whom will give a party to which she invites another four, each wornan attending a party giving orm peso to the fund. The women in the provinces have also been asked by NFWC pres ident Mrs. Lim to cooperate in this campaign or take the initiative in organizing committees to carry out the campaign, should the municipal or provincial officials find them selves too busy campaigning for the December elections. Now for a little history: Boy scouting in the Philippines was of ficially recognized in 1924 when th’ National Council of the United States granted a charter to the Phil ippine council. Boy scout troops had been known to exist in the Phil ippines since 1911. However, no body knows where the first scout troop in the Philippines was organ ized and by whom. Some say that the American-European Y. M. C. A. in Manila organized the first troop; others believe an unknown Jesuit father introduced the movement i:i Zamboanga ; while still others assert that Pedro del Mundo, a lover of youth, organized the first troop in Boac, Marinduque. lit the time the charter was grant ed to the Philippine Council in 1924, there were only 16 groups Clear up Pimples with this proven treatment. Stillman's Actone by laboratory tests kills most common pimple germ. Writes one thank ful young lady: “Actone has cleared my face of pimples after having them for four years. I tried everything with little results, but now my face is practically dear." Ask your druggist today about this new relief, Stillman’s Actone. He has a free folder for you. Remove the Pimples. Distributors—Botica Boic, Manila Breakfast Parties have bowls of each, so that your Favored By Younger Set guests will have a choice. Entertaining informally at break fast has been growing in favor of late among the younger set. It is a delightful way to begin a holiday, or to entertain a crowd after an early morning swim. The keynote of breakfast enter taining is simplicity. Use gay flower ed china, doilies or table cloths of gingham or fringed, colored liimn, and if flowers are used as a center piece they should be simply arrang ed in a bowl or basket. One large table may be used, or small tables, scattered around the living room or patio, are equally correct. Many hostesses who have only one maid serve buffet siyle. and a friend asked to pour. A Waffle Breakfast is Lots of Fun A “waffle breakfast” is toe per fect ending for an cnv’y morning swimming party. Place the waffle iron in front of the hostess and have the baiter in pitchers with wide snouts. The maid can serve coffee, or the service can be placed on a tray at the other end of the table, Waffles, of course, are accom panied by generous servings of syrup, honey, jellies, jam. or cinnamon-and-sugar mixed. Better of boy scouts. Today there are 786 troops with a membership of about 15,000 boys. This number is in significant considering the fact that there are 1,000,000 boys in the Phil ippines who are eligible for scout ing but who have not joined the organization. Each year 140,000 of these boys reach the age of 21 years. The commonwealth government realizing the advantages of having at least the majority of these boys trained as boy scouts and get them ready for advanced military school ing, last year approved Common wealth Act No. Ill creating a cor poration known as the Boy Scouts of the Philippines. Thus was boy scouting in the Philippines separat ed from that in America. Following the enactment of th* bill, President Quezon signed an executive order setting aside Nov ember 6 to 30 every year as boy scout period. This year, this period ROYAL WAFFLES 2 cups flour 3 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder % teaspoon salt 2 eggs 1-3/3 cups milk 4 tablespoons melted shortening Sift together dry ingredients. Add slightly beaten egg yoj^s and milk: beat thoroughly. Add short ening. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in hot waffle iron until brown. Makes 4 large waffles. BREAKFAST ON A TRAY When you have a house guest, breakfast a la tete-a-tete can be as charming a part of her entertain ment as any of the more elaborate functions given in her honor. If you can accord the dainty break fast sets of gay. flowered china, so fashionable today, use them by all means. If not, arrange your own dishes on two trays as shown in the illustration. Tested Recipes For Sim ple Hot Breads That Will make Your Breakfast Party a Success. is being used for the campaign for raising money with which the or ganization plans to build an “in ternational clubhouse” which will also be the headquarters. On the first day of the campaign (November 6), 2,000 boys marched in a parade under heavy rain and heard speeches from Weldon Jones and J. E. Stevenot. In the after noon of November 15, President Quezon was scheduled to lay the cornerstone of the “international clubhouse” near historic Muralla, but the President refused to lay the cornerstone, saying that lie did not want the appearance of the old walls marred by a modern building. He told the officials of the organ ization to look for another site for the clubhouse and even promised to work for an appropriation from the government for half of the sum required for the construction of the building. Manila, November. 119.37 ( FROM COVER TO. (Continued from page 1) page 8 twice timely—in commemo ration of her birthday and to honor her as one of the great Filipinos, whose day is celebrated this month. Speaking about this picture of Dona Teodora. at first her daughter would not allow us to take it out of the house, saying that besides the large framed picture hanging in her 100m, it was the only picture of her mother that she possessed. She was afraid it might be lost or damaged in some way or another. We under stood perfectly her fears. We pro mised to have it reproduced and then to return it on the same day. True to our word, we stood near the photographer while he took the re production and returned the ori ginal immediately after. We would not trust the original to the engrav ers, for we have had sad experien ces with them. Much of the credit for the two letters of resolution which the Ma nila Woman’s Club sent to the Com missioner of Public Safety asking for the improvement of the Manila fire department and for the crea tion of a women precinct and a women police patrol goes to Miss Bessie A. D’wyer, a member of the Civic Committee of said organiza tion, who went around getting all the information, prepared the reso lutions, paid the typist who typed them with money out of her own pocket, then went around again for the signatures of the other members of the Civic Committee: Mi's, de Vcyra, Mrs. Lim, Mrs. Vera, Mrs. Delgado, Mrs. Cadwallader, Mrs. Shuman and Mrs. Rodriguez. The data for the article on China’s “women of the hour” were gathered from articles on these re markable women that have appear ed in various magazines (notably COSMOPOLITAN and LIFE) and newspapers. The pictures which ac company this article are reproduc tions of those which appeared in LIFE. Perhaps some readers will re member that the author of Father Meets Son, J. P. McEvoy, was one of the newspapermen from the United States who were invited down here for the inauguration of our Commonwealth government two years ago. Mr. McEvoy is a wellknown humorist writer. His advice to his son embarking on the ship of matrimony, although clothed in humorous sentences, is full of eommonsen.se and should interest not only our men readers but also the womenfolk, married and unmarried. The NFWC is fully in accord with the holding of a Noon-Hour Prayer Link of all Christians in the Philippines as suggested on page 15. If the noon-hour is not convenient, the prayer may be done in the afternoon, preferably at An gelas time, or in the evening, at bed time. This suggestion has been sent by the NFWC to club women in the provinces. WITH ONE SWEEPSTAKES TICKET you may build up your future and be independent for the rest of your life. Pl,290,000 to be distributed in Prizes at the Christmas Draw on December 19 at Santa Ana Park. First Prize........P200,000 Second Prize... 100,000 Third Prize.... 50,000 and thousands of other big, prizes. • Sale of Tickets at the Sweeps Office closes Dec. 4 • Buy Your Tickets From Authorized Sellers WIN A PRIZE AND SAVE A LIFE Philippine Charity Sweepstakes ' " Hum' Journal—Xartmh> >•.

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